Do I need to do ‘git init’ before doing ‘git clone’ on a project

git clone is basically a combination of:

• git init (create the local repository)
• git remote add (add the URL to that repository)
• git fetch (fetch all branches from that URL to your local repository)
• git checkout (create all the files of the main branch in your working tree)

Therefore, no, you don’t have to do a git init, because it is already done by git clone.