How do I clone a GitHub wiki?

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joseph.hainline picture joseph.hainline · Feb 26, 2013 · Viewed 38.6k times · Source

How do I clone my GitHub repository's wiki? I know it's saved as a separate Git repository, but I can't remember the path.

I've tried ...reponame/wiki.git and ...reponame.git/wiki, but neither are correct.

Answer

joseph.hainline picture joseph.hainline · Feb 26, 2013

Append .wiki.git to the repository name.

That is, if your repository name was foobar:

git clone [email protected]:myusername/foobar.git would be the path to clone your repository

and

git clone [email protected]:myusername/foobar.wiki.git would be the path to clone its wiki.

Note: You must have at least one page to be able to clone the wiki repo. (via @tobiasz-cudnik)

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