--- title: 'repo clone' weight: 20 generated: true description: 'Clone a remote repository' --- ```text Usage: libfossil repo clone [ []] [flags] Clone a remote repository Arguments: [] Remote Fossil server URL [] Local path for new repository file Flags: -h, --help Show context-sensitive help. -R, --repo=STRING Path to repository file -v, --verbose Verbose output -u, --user=STRING Username for clone auth -p, --pass=STRING Password for clone auth --invite=STRING Invite token (from fossil invite) --timeout=10m Abort the clone if it runs longer than this; 0 disables the deadline --horizon=STRING Clone a horizon store: elide blobs below this check-in, given as tip, a branch or tag, or its full 40 or 64 digit hash; the origin resolves a name, or the clone does over what an origin that cannot sends it; what each rule would hold needs a local repository ('repo cone cost') or a peer that exposes it out of band, as the origin's horizon-served URL may --depth=INT With --horizon, step the check-in back this many check-ins along primary parents, stopping at a root --leaves With --horizon, also hold every open leaf's ancestry back to the check-in, for merging across live branches offline; costly: on a repository with old unmerged branches that is nearly the whole history --structural With --horizon, also elide the manifests below the check-in, deriving their branch and tag state from the origin's seed --cone=CONE,... Clone a sparse store: fetch only this path's subtree (repeatable) --cone-not=CONE-NOT,... Carve this path out of a --cone (repeatable) --seed-key=STRING The origin's public key, an SSH public key line or an OpenPGP fingerprint: with --structural, a horizon seed not signed by it is discarded and the clone falls back to the content horizon; kept as the horizon-seed-key setting ```