Commonly, you will find yourself needing to put your local repository on a shared place where someone else can look at your work; in this section, we will learn how to achieve this purpose.

Create a new local repository to publish, following these simple steps:

1. Go to our local repositories folder.
2. Create a new HelloWorld folder.
3. In it place a new repository, as we did in first chapter.

4. Add a new README.md file and commit it:

      [19] ~
      $ mkdir HelloWorld

      [20] ~
      $ cd HelloWorld/

      [21] ~/HelloWorld
      $ git init
      Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/san/Google 
      Drive/Packt/PortableGit/home/HelloWorld/.git/

      [22] ~/HelloWorld (master)
      $ echo "Hello World!" >> README.md

      [23] ~/HelloWorld (master)
      $ git add README.md

      [24] ~/HelloWorld (master)
      $ git config user.name "Ferdinando Santacroce"

      [25] ~/HelloWorld (master)
      $ git config user.email "[email protected]"

      [26] ~/HelloWorld (master)
      $ git commit -m "First commit"
      [master (root-commit) 5b41441] First commit
       1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
       create mode 100644 README.md

      [27] ~/HelloWorld (master)

Now, create the GitHub repository as we did previously; this time leave it empty. Don't initialize it with a readme file; we already have one in our local repository. The following is a screenshot taken directly from the GitHub repository creation page:

At this point, we are ready to publish our local repository on GitHub or, even better, to add a remote to it.