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Asked: 2026-05-15T18:27:43+00:00

OK, total noob question, for msysgit on Windows 7, but I have a remote

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OK, total noob question, for msysgit on Windows 7, but I have a remote repository (on unfuddle), create on one PC, and now I want to pull it down to another PC. I tried ‘Fetch’ using Git Gui, but the folder still only has a .git subfolder. It took a while pulling it down, so I assume there is something in the repo, but how do I check it out to a working copy. Nothing I have tried seems to work.

SOLUTION:
It’s not directly in his answer, but VonC below pointed me to the unfuddle help documentation for Git, which is as terse as the Git man-pages are dense. The follwing single command got me the working copy and local repository I needed:

$ git clone git@subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git
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  1. Editorial Team

    Following the Git documentation on Unfuddle, did you declare your unfunddle repo as a remote?

    $ cd /path/to/repository
$ git remote add unfuddle git@subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git

    Try also gitk --all: if the fetch has succeded, you should the remote tracking branches (like unfuddle/master). You can then merge it to your master branch in order to finally see files in your (still empty) working tree.
    You could also have done a git pull to combine the two steps together (fetch+merge). See this blog post for illustration.

    Actually, the OP ProfK reports a cloning issue:

    I did already have the unfuddle remote added

    git clone git@subdomain.unfuddle.com:subdomain/abbreviation.git

    is more suited to get a local repo with the right remote already added to it.

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