I have just logged in to the GitHub website. Once there, I click on the green button with the text Create Repository. When I click on the button, I am redirected to the create a new repository screen where I'll be prompted for who the owner is. I choose my account as the owner option for this example. Next, I need to input a repository name. I type a name called my-first-repo. Notice that the input field has a green tick icon beside it. This is just GitHub letting me know that this name is available to create the repository. If it's not, I will see an X icon and be prompted to rename it. Now I need to type a value for the description input. For this, I type practice account for learning Git. The next option I want you to know about is if you want the repository to be public or private. Public just means that anyone on the Internet can see the repository. I still have control over who can make changes to it. It's just available on the viewable aspect of it on the Internet. The next option is private, meaning it's not available for anyone to see. I can only allow access by granting people access to the repository. The next few options are about initialization. I can initialize a repository with a README file, a gitignore file, and a license if one is required. For now, I'm just going to choose the README file option and then click the "Create repository" button. A repo has now been set up and I can see that I have one single file in the repository called README.md. Md is just short for markdown, a popular method for creating documentation because it's shorthand for creating HTML pages. This allows me to do things like creating titles and texts. I can insert images and various other webpage elements. Notice that the main branch has also been created and it's important to know that every repository you create will have a single main branch at the start. This is also known as the main line. Next, I'm presented with additional button options. The first is labeled Go to file, then there is Add file, which you can use to add a new file from the UI. Finally, a green button labeled code. Clicking this button provides me with a GitHub UI options for cloning down the repository. First is the option for HTTPS, which contains the HTTPS URL of the repository and I can use this to pull it down by using the git clone command. Next, there is an option for SSH but to use that, I have to set up my SSH keys and assign them to the user accounts. Finally, I have the GitHub CLI option. Underneath, notice that there are additional options for GitHub Desktop if I would like to use that. Finally, I can also download a compressed zip file containing all the files and folder structures. For this demo, I will show you how to use HTTPS. To begin, select the HTTPS option and click on the "Copy" button to copy the HTTPS URL for cloning. Now I go to my command line that I will be using to run the commands to clone the repository. I'm currently in my home directory. What I usually like to do is create a directory for all repositories that I'm working on at the moment. First, I create a directory using the command, mkdir, then I type the name of the directory I want to create, which is projects. Next, I can cd into that, and now I can run the commands to clone the project from the GitHub UI. To do this, I type the command git clone and paste the HTTPS URL I copied earlier. Finally, I press "Enter" on my keyboard. Notice that I receive a message stating that git is cloning into the my first repo folder. It then displays messages about all the objects that have been received. It also displays a 100-percent status message, and then finally, a statement that simply says done. Now I can list the directory by running the ls-la command, which means list all directories. Notice that I have my repository, which I named my first repo. This is the name of the repository that we set up on GitHub. Finally, if I enter inside that folder using the cd command, I can see a single file, the README.md file. If I use the ls-la command, another file is listed, which is just named.git. You will learn more about this later when you explore how to use this for source control.
