Creating a Repository

It is very easy to start a project with git. You can create an empty project or you can start with a folder that already has content in it. You can also clone a repository from somewhere else, but that is covered in the Using Remote Repositories section. All you need to do to initialize a git repository is to run the init command:

$ mkdir newproject
$ cd newproject/
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tellmejeff/work/newproject/.git/

The working directory has been initialized, and a .git directory is created at the root of the project to store all the metadata about the repository.