The first thing a developer wants to do after the creation of a GitHub repository is to clone it. For a typical repo, you would grab the repository's URL and issue a git clone command. Unfortunately, ...

Make sure Git is installed. Create a folder for your project. Open the Git Bash tool. Issue the git init command. Verify the hidden .git subfolder was created. With the new Git repository created, a ...

Git will create a copy of the repository on your local machine, which you can now add, commit and push. Those changes will be local to your repository and won’t impact anyone.

To initialize the site, first create an index page, either as HTML or Markdown, and push it to the new repository. Go to the URL that’s the repository name to view your site.

Gitting going with git: creating your first repository Ars walks through the steps to building a simple github respository.