# Git and Pkg3

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739 "2017-12-13T14:59:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739/1 "2017-12-13T14:59:32Z")

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This is not an issue, but a usage question about `Pkg3`, so even though it is work in progress I hope it is OK to ask here.

My understanding is that one of the great innovations of [Pkg3](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg3.jl) is that it does not need to clone repositories. I understand the advantages, but I am curious what to do in case I _do_ want to use the whole git repo (eg because I want to make a PR).

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739/2 "2017-12-13T15:13:12Z")

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I think it’s:

```julia
] pkg checkout

```

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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739/3 "2017-12-13T15:24:52Z")

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Could not make this work (`invalid command`).

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### Author: ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739/4 "2017-12-13T15:29:14Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg3.jl/pull/56](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg3.jl/pull/56) implements it as:

`pkg> clone "URL"`

The final way will be something similar to that.

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/git-and-pkg3/7739/5 "2017-12-13T18:22:47Z")

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Sorry, I was remembering Stefan’s JuliaCon talk. Hopefully there be more videos for the first release…