new repo page info - feature request

[drbeco]

Dear Holman, github team,

Do you know that page when we create a new repository completely empty? It gives you some commands to populate it:

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…or create a new repository on the command line



echo "# reponame" >> README.md git init git add README.md git commit -m "first commit" git remote add origin git@github.com:user/reponame.git git push -u origin master

…or push an existing repository from the command line



git remote add origin git@github.com:user/reponame.git git push -u origin master

…or import code from another repository

You can initialize this repository with code from a Subversion, Mercurial, or TFS project.

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In the first section, I have lots of "first time users", students of mine, that mistakenly issue git init in their $HOME folder, adding a lot of files in the process (the worst case scenario, one of them added also his .ssh folder and private keys).

It wouldn't hurt to ask you guys to add just two more commands in the recipe, to make it clearer:

…or create a new repository on the command line



mkdir reponame cd reponame echo "# reponame" >> README.md git init git add README.md git commit -m "first commit" git remote add origin git@github.com:user/reponame.git git push -u origin master

Please tell me if that is fair enough.

My best.

@drbeco

[ur0]

@holman doesn't work for GitHub anymore - try contacting support@github.com.

[drbeco]

Thank you @ur0 , if not for you, this issue would be lost here forever.