Especially in the open source world you will sooner or later stumble on GitHub, GitLab or similar online services with "Git" in the name - in search of program code.
Behind it hides various companies/websites/organizations that offer something similar.
All these providers offer on their websites/servers the opportunity to make software projects available online and continue to work on them - even as a group.
In essence, these are file hosters – providers that provide online storage.
In addition, these offer many more features.
This allows you to create wikis, track and undo code changes, report bugs. All of these features are designed to make it easier to work on code together with multiple people.
So GitHub and Co. are tools that you, as a software developer, do not really get around.
But as a simple user of a code, these tools often seem a bit 'dazzling'. You really just want to download the code and use it.
How to get the code of a Git repository is described in the following article.
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Open GitHub
First, of course, you have to find and open the Git repository from which you want to download your code.
As an example, the download of the ESPEasy files is carried out here.
You can find the corresponding Git repository at https://github.com/Nerdiyde/ESPEasy
Download GitHub
The following pictures describe how to download the Git repository files.
Have fun with the project
I hope everything worked as described. If not or you have any other questions or suggestions, please let me know in the comments. Also, ideas for new projects are always welcome. 🙂
P.S. Many of these projects - especially the hardware projects - cost a lot of time and money. Of course I do this because I enjoy it, but if you appreciate that I share this information with you, I would be happy about a small donation to the coffee box. 🙂
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