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Creating a repository in GitHub - GitHub Tutorial
From the course: GitHub for Data Scientists
Creating a repository in GitHub
- [Instructor] In order to collaborate with your peers and work on code in GitHub, you will first need to create a repository to hold the code. You might hear a repository referred to as a repo. This is just the slang or shortened version of repository. This lesson will teach you how to create a new repository in GitHub. First, navigate to the homepage of your GitHub account. Navigate to the upper right-hand corner and click the plus sign, then click on Create New Repository. Enter a name for your repository. For this one, I'll call it MyFirstRepo. You can optionally add a description to describe the goal of the repository or what code will live inside of it. Next you'll choose whether or not you want your repository to be public or private. A public repository means it's open to anyone on the internet. They can help collaborate, if you allow them to. Private repositories mean that you must individually add users to…