GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

Create a repository GitHub repositories store a variety of projects. In this guide, you'll create a repository and commit your first change.

A repository contains all of your code, your files, and each file's revision history. You can discuss and manage your work within the repository.

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You can create a new repository on your personal account or any organization where you have sufficient permissions.

When you create a repository on GitHub, it exists as a remote repository. You can clone your repository to create a local copy on your computer and sync between the two locations.

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

A README, along with a repository license, citation file, contribution guidelines, and a code of conduct, communicates expectations for your project and helps you manage contributions.

If you're already familiar with Git, and you're looking for information on how to upload a locally-stored Git repository to GitHub, see Adding locally hosted code to GitHub.

You can create a repository on GitHub to store and collaborate on your project's files, then manage the repository's name and location.