Before you can start using various git features you have to first start or download a git project also called a repository. A git repository is just a folder on your computer that has git attached to it. There are 2 ways to create a git repository:
- Downloading or cloning an existing repository
- Starting your own repository
We will be focusing on the first way of starting a repository but if you are interested in number 2 these videos should help you:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4WltCTVms Goes over what a git repository is in video form and how to create one
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXt95X8U1Dc Another video that goes over how to create a new repository.
Let's clone or download the GettingStartedWithGit repo (short for repository) into our computer. This article goes over how to do this in git kracken https://blog.axosoft.com/remote-repository/ and this is the link to the repo https://github.com/Big-Life-Lab/GettingStartedWithGit.
If everything went well then you should have the repo on your computer. Congrats...you have successfully created a git repo!