This guide helps you add new files to your GitHub repository. Before you start, you'll need just a couple of things: a GitHub account and an existing repository. There's three ways to add files to ...

I tried to add a local repository, but GitHub Desktop does not recognize the local folder as a Git repository. The Add Repository button is unclickable. It instead recommends creating a new repository ...

Local GitHub Desktop client use You can use the GitHub Desktop client locally without connecting to a remote repository. The repository explorer page provides a Create New Repository option that wraps ...

In this section, I’ll show you how to create two new repositories, and then push a file from your local machine to the remote GitHub servers, using the GitHub Desktop app.

Figure C Adding a repository URL for cloning in the GitHub Desktop client. Click Clone and the repository will be cloned into the local directory shown in the Local Path field.

GitHub Desktop details the changes tracked for a given repository using the same color syntax and iconography as GitHub itself. Aside from cloning or adding repositories, the major activities in ...

Creating Github folders Before we make a folder in your Github repository, it’s important to note that Github doesn’t allow you to create a folder without adding at least one file. This doesn’t have ...