I'm fairly new to git and most of my interaction with it has been via the IntelliJ Idea IDE. But sometimes I use a command line. In one directory I did "git init", "git add files", and "git commit".

Need to create a new Git repository? Then you'll need to learn how to use the git init command, because that's the only way to create a new Git repo. A Git repository is the heart and soul of Git.

All remote repositories, such as GitHub, GitLab or even a custom one that an organization hosts on the local network, have a URL associated with the repository. This tutorial uses GitHub, and you can ...