radicle-heartwood-lfs/radicle-cli/examples/rad-fetch.md

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].