What does cloning a GitHub repository mean?

Question

I am trying to integrate Facebook with my app. I read this on developers.facebook.com:

1. Install XCode
2. Install Git
3. Clone the G

Answer 1

Cloning a git repository means that you create a local copy of the code provided by developer. You can simply do it with a command line:

git clone git://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk.git .

and you'll have the code in the facebook-ios-sdk directory.