That's where GitHub CLI comes in. An official tool made by GitHub, it's good to use both on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in PowerShell or within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Only the git init command has the power to create a new Git repository. This simple version control tutorial shows you how to use the git init command.

The first thing a developer wants to do after the creation of a GitHub repository is to clone it. For a typical repo, you would grab the repository's URL and issue a git clone command. Unfortunately, ...

Now that you have your repository cloned to your local machine, add (or create) all the code you need for the repository into the new directory and issue the command: git add .