How to create a Repository and Branches in Github.

1. Creating a new repository

• You need to create a new repository and click on the plus sign.
• Fill up all the required details, i.e., repository name, description and also make the repository public.

       

2. Open your Git Bash

• Git Bash can be downloaded in here, and it is a shell used to interface with the operating system which follows the UNIX command.

3. Create your local project in your desktop directed   towards a current working directory

• pwd stands for 'print working directory', which is used to print the current directory.
• Move to the specific path in your local computer by cd 'path_name'. The cd commands stand for 'change directory' and it is used to change to the working directory in your operating system, and to locate your file.

  

4. Initialize the git repository

• Use git init to initialize the repository. It is used to create a new empty repository or directory consisting of files' with the hidden directory. '.git' is created at the top level of your project, which places all of the revision information in one place.

  

5. Add the file to the new local repository

• Use git add . in your bash to add all the files to the given folder.
• Use git status in your bash to view all the files which are going to be staged to the first commit.

    

6. Commit the files staged in your local repository by   writing a commit message

• You can create a commit message by git commit -m 'your message', which adds the change to the local repository.
• git commit uses '-m' as a flag for a message to set the commits with the content where the full description is included, and a message is written in an imperative sentence up to 50 characters long and defining "what was changed", and "why was the change made".

     

7. Copy your remote repository's URL from GitHub

• The HTTPS or URL is copied from the given GitHub account, which is the place of the remote repository.

    

8. Add the URL copied, which is your remote repository to     where your local content from your repository is pushed

• git remote add origin 'your_url_name'
• In the above code, The 'origin' is the remote name, and the remote URL is "https://github.com/UserName/Name of Git Repository.git". You can see the remote as GitHub in this case, and GitHub provides the URL for adding to the remote repository.

9. Push the code in your local repository to GitHub

• git push -u origin master is used for pushing local content to GitHub.
• In the code, the origin is your default remote repository name and '-u' flag is upstream, which is equivalent to '-set-upstream.' and the master is the branch, name.upstream is the repository that we have cloned the project.
• Fill in your GitHub username and password.

   

     

10. View your files in your repository hosted on GitHub

• You can finally see the file hosted on GitHub.

      

CREATING BRANCHES:

• You can create a new branch by using the git checkout -b 'branch_name'. In the above code, '-b' flag is used to create a new branch, and 'branch_name' is used to give the branch a specific name, and with checkout, the branch is switched to the newly created branch.