That's where GitHub CLI comes in. An official tool made by GitHub, it's good to use both on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in PowerShell or within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Create a Git repo in an existing project A folder does not need to be empty to issue the git init command and create a new repository. If a folder already contains files, here’s what you do: Simply ...

The first thing a developer wants to do after the creation of a GitHub repository is to clone it. For a typical repo, you would grab the repository's URL and issue a git clone command. Unfortunately, ...

Now that you have your repository cloned to your local machine, add (or create) all the code you need for the repository into the new directory and issue the command: git add .

You can use a local Git repository, or work with Git in Azure Devops and Visual Studio Team Services. Code can be quickly branched for your own work, creating local branches from remote masters.