Cloning the VISG course 2012 repository

We want to make a local copy or clone of the entire repository on github In the VISG-course-2012 repository, there are three links you can press 'HTTP', 'HTTPS', and 'GIT-Read-Only'. The first two provide read-writable urls for git to clone a repository on your client machine.

We are using the shell variable here $HOME (which is the same as '~' ), which points to the location of the visg_user home directory to create a variable called $dir which points to the destination location of the repository.

Now to clone a repository type the following commands in your client side shell terminal;

## Defining a variable for repository location
dir=$HOME/VISG-course-2012

## filesystem location
echo $dir

## Clone the repository explicitly to $dir
git clone git://github.com/cfljam/VISG-course-2012.git $dir

## gzip up data (could just copy/move...)
cd ~/Desktop/VISG\ Files/VISG_LDS
tar -zcvf VISG_LDS.tgz 00.raw/ 05.reference/

## Overlay data explicitly to $dir
tar -zxvf ~/Desktop/VISG\ Files/VISG_LDS/VISG_LDS.tgz -C $dir

cd $dir

Note: We have explicitly defined the source and destination directories here