Difficulty creating a new repository

[thiagosales007]

Good Morning I would like a help please My name and Thiago Sales thank you.

How to solve?

This message appears below

This directory appears to be a Git repository. Would you like to add this repository instead?

[LanceMcCarthy]

HI Thiago,

That is the wrong form. It is for creating a new repository, you actually want to clone an existing repository.

Instead, go back to the home page of this repo and take the following steps

1. Click the Code button
2. Click Open with GitHub desktop button
3. You browser will open a prompt and ask it is okay to open GitHub for Desktop, select OK.
4. Then complete the steps inside GitHub for Desktop to clone the repo locally

Edit 1 - Warning

I noticed you're using a OneDrive folder to place the project. Please do not do that. This is because Visual Studio generates a lot of temporary files (i.e. in the obj and bin folders) that will be constantly uploaded and deleted as you work on your project.

• Best case scenario: you will slow down your computer performance and limits available network bandwidth
• Not Good Scenario: You use up your entire internet data cap in a few days
• Worst Case Scenario: You do this for all your projects and it ruins your hard drive longevity

Please use git instead of OneDrive

[LanceMcCarthy]

Closing this as Unrelated

@thiagosales007 The problem you're having is due to being unfamiliar with GitHub for Desktop's UI or maybe git in general? If you have any further trouble, please reach out to me personally and I'd love to help out. (DM me on Twitter)