If you need help with these prerequisites, you can refer to the kshitijaa.hashnode.dev/git-hands-on-1

Set your user name and email address, which will be associated with your commits.

\Here you have to put Username and password of your GitHub account\

git config --global user.name "username"
git config --global user.email "username@gmail.com"

Verify your configuration info

git config --list

How to connect local to remote? [Git to GitHub Conenction]

Create Repository in GitHub

1. Click on the new repository option

2. Now give a name of your repository as per your choice and a description.

3. Choose the Visibility to public /private as per your requirement.

4. Before hitting the create button you can include a README file

5. Click on Create button and a new repository will be created.'

Access Repository from Local Machine

1. To initialize a local repo in the machine create a folder and go to that folder (say /GIT_REPO). Open Git bash terminal and write the command git init. Here .git hidden folder will be created.

git init #make GIT_REPO folder as git repository

2. Create/Add the files to your new local repository. This stages them for the first commit.

touch file1 #create a file 
git add file1 && git commit -m "added new file" #perform git add & commit

3. Add the URL for the remote repository where your local repository will be pushed.

git remote add origin <URL_OF_GitHub_REPO.git>

4. Enter your username and Personal access token to push your codes to the central repo (GitHub)

git pull #always pull before push
git push -u origin master #here you can use master or main

Now you know how to create repo in GitHub and access the same repo from your local machine.

When we join any organization being a developer or QA or DevOps it is required to take code to locally, to modify or update few things that we work on daily.