Git for Programmers

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Creating Your Repository

In this chapter, you will learn how to create an account on GitHub, and how to create and clone your first repository so that you have a link between the repository on your computer and that on GitHub.

This chapter will cover:

• Creating your repository
• Git pull
• Push me, pull you
• Starting at the command line
• Commits – best practices

We'll start by creating your GitHub repository.

Creating your repository

There are a number of different ways to create your repository. We'll cover creating a repository on GitHub and cloning it to your disk, as this is the most common way.

Creating your repository on GitHub first

Your first step is to register with GitHub. Go to http://github.com and click Sign Up. Fill in your username ...