• Go to  Get Docker and download and install the Docker version for your platform

  • You have to install Docker Desktop for Mac

  • You have to install Docker Desktop for Windows

    • NOTE (IMPORTANT): Follow the instructions to install WSL 2 backend. This is what allows you to run Linux Docker container on a Windows machine.

  • You have to install Docker for Linux (there isn’t a Docker Desktop) for Linux at the time of this writing

• Check to make sure your Docker is installed by going to the terminal and checking the Docker version with this command.

 

 docker --version

 

• Set user name and email on your local git.

  • NOTE: Make sure the username and email is the same used for the GitHub repo shared with the team for the project.

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

• Check config

git config --list

• Clone the GitHub repository

• This may work for you

• If the above code does not work for you (possibly on Windows or an older version of git), try this

  • FOR PRIVATE GITHUB REPOSITORY: You MUST include the username with collaboration permissions (i.e. the GitHub username you are using for this project)

  • The the syntax will be https://<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>@github.com/<GITHUB ADDRESS>

• Check remote origin (be in the git repo folder locally on your machine) 

git remote show origin

• List branches

  • Git local branches only

• Git remote branches

• Git all...