Clone GitHub repository without account?

No. You just use a different URL:

git clone git://github.com/SomeUser/SomeRepo.git

However, the local repo will be "read-only" in the sense that you won't be able to push your changes back to the original repo. You will still able to modify files and commit changes locally, though.

In contrast,

git clone [email protected]:UserName/OtherRepo.git

works only if you have properly set up your environment with the necessary SSH keys and whatnot, but in return you'll get a repository that permits you to commit/push the changes back to the remote repo.

(Sorry for the unintentional ad for GitHub, I just had it in mind.)

I was following some documentation for a product which required cloning from github. I didn't want to bother setting up an account so I needed to do exactly what was asked here.

The command in the documentation was:

git clone git://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-message-consumer.git

but that just fails for me with.

Cloning into 'fcrepo-message-consumer'...
ssh: Could not resolve hostname github.com: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I tried

git clone git://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-message-consumer.git

as suggested in one of the answers but that failed too with.

Cloning into 'fcrepo-message-consumer'...
fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (nodename nor servname provided, or not known)

What finally worked was this:

git clone https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo-message-consumer.git

Or just use http prefix , and .git suffix is not mandatory too :

You can check with

git clone http://github.com/tizenteam/iotivity-example

Related info:

https://help.github.com/articles/why-is-git-always-asking-for-my-password/