Here's an easy method to clone an existing Drupal 8 site into your local environment using Acquia Dev Desktop. All you need is the site codebase and a database dump.
Git Interactive rebase is used to cleanup your git history. This is a search phrase that I constantly google despite having done it more often than I can count
The Twig "Do-Something" Delimiter is used to perform various actions. In Drupal you use this delimiter to perform tasks like conditionally displaying page regions if they are not empty.