Why create a new git repo? Git is a powerful, distributed version control tool that allows users to: Track changes to files and folders. Maintain an extended history of commits. Perform isolated ...

Only the git init command has the power to create a new Git repository. This simple version control tutorial shows you how to use the git init command.

Jack Wallen shows you how to add a GitHub shortcut to a Jira project so you can view information about branches, commits and pull requests.

Starting a repository like this, you’ll usually do an “initial” commit – for that, you can run git commit -m "Initial commit", where the -m parameter is a human-readable message describing ...

Now that you have your repository cloned to your local machine, add (or create) all the code you need for the repository into the new directory and issue the command: git add .