Create a Repository in Github

Balaram Ghosh
2 min readJan 18, 2021

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  1. Open Github and login to your account.
  2. In the upper-right corner of any page, you can find the ➕ drop-down menu, 🖱️ use it and select New repository.

3. ⌨️ Type a Relevant name for your repository. For example, “new-repository” and make sure that the repository name is not used before as your previous repository name.

4. Optionally, ⌨️ add a meaningful description of your repository. For example, “This is my first repository in GitHub.”

5. When you create a repository, you can 🖱️ choose to make the repository public or private.

Public repository: If the repository is public then, anyone on the internet can see this repository.

Private repository: If the repository is private then only they can see this repository whom you choose.

6. 🖱️ Select Add a README file to initialize this repository.

7. 🖱️ Select Create repository button to complete the creating of repository.

🎉 Congratulations! You’ve successfully created your first repository, and initialized it with a README file.

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Balaram Ghosh
Balaram Ghosh

Written by Balaram Ghosh

● Cybersecurity enthusiast 👩‍💻 ● Competitive programmer 🥇 ● Android developer 📱 ● Web developer 🌐 ● Open source contributor 🧞

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