Cloning the Repository
The repository can be cloned from git://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer.git using the git clone command.
You will need to have git installed before you can use the git clone command.
To clone the repository:
- Open your favorite terminal environment (command line).
- Move to the directory you want to clone to.
- Run the command git clone git://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer.git swiftmailer.
The source code will be downloaded into a directory called "swiftmailer".
The example shows the process on a UNIX-like system such as Linux, BSD or Mac OS X.
chrisbook:~ chris$ cd source_code/ chrisbook:source_code chris$ git clone git://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer.git swiftmailer Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/chris/source_code/swiftmailer/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 6815, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2761/2761), done. remote: Total 6815 (delta 3641), reused 6326 (delta 3286) Receiving objects: 100% (6815/6815), 4.35 MiB | 162 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (3641/3641), done. Checking out files: 100% (1847/1847), done. chrisbook:source_code chris$ cd swiftmailer/ chrisbook:swiftmailer chris$ ls CHANGES LICENSE.LGPL README.git VERSION docs lib test-suite util LICENSE.GPL README TODO build.xml examples notes tests chrisbook:swiftmailer chris$
Parent topic: Installing from Git