If you are planning to work on IT, having knowledge about Git is immensely important for tracking changes in computer files or coordinating work on those files among multiple people. If you have never heard about git before this, trust me, you must go through this article. After you have installed Git and created an account on Github already (if not follow this article ), go to the Github repository you want to clone to your local machine. Say you want to clone and work on the following repository: https://github.com/sulavtimsina/phpMVC Click on Clone or Download. Click on "Use SSH" and copy the URL to clipboard. Go to the folder where you want to clone (download) this repository, right click on the white space and select Git Bash Here to open up the git bash on this location. On the git bash type: git clone git@github.com:sulavtimsina/phpMVC.git If you haven't already added the SSH public key to your Github profile, then you may get this error: