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Create an empty GitHub repo: VS

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Create an empty GitHub repo: VS

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- [Instructor] This is the scenario we're looking at. We're in Visual Studio and we would like to create a Git repository. I'd like to have a local repository and I'd also like to create one on GitHub the remote repository. We're seeing how to do that with two separate actions. With Visual Studio I can combine them both into a single action. To do that I go to the Team Explorer. Check out the GitHub section. There's two actions here. There's clone, which takes an existing GitHub repository and makes a local copy of it. And the one we're looking at for this video is Create. I will use this path. Then I'll specify I want the Visual Studio Git ignore file. I'll leave the licenses blank. There are multiple licenses to choose from. I'll use my currently logged on credentials. I'll mark this as a private repository. Then all I need to do is come up with a name and a description. Everything looks good so I'll click create.…

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