Using `rad clone` is useful if we want to create and fetch a project that exists on Radicle, but perhaps we're in a scenario where we may already have an existing Git repository and so a full clone is not necessary. Instead, we want to fetch the project from the network into our local storage. In this scenario, we know that the project is `rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji`. In order to fetch it, we first have to track the project. ``` $ rad track rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji --no-fetch ✓ Tracking policy updated for rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji with scope 'trusted' ``` Now that the project is tracked we can fetch it and we will have it in our local storage. Note that the `track` command can also be told to fetch by passing the `--fetch` option. ``` $ rad sync --fetch rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji ✓ Fetching rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji from z6MknSL…StBU8Vi.. ✓ Fetched repository from 1 seed(s) ``` However, we don't have a local fork of the project. We can follow this up with [rad-fork](rad-fork.md).