Setting up a repo

I created a new repo called BranchTest on GitHub.

I created a directory OneDrive - Atlantic TU\GitHub\BranchTest and created a single batch file in the directory, setup.cmd.

echo "# BranchTest" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/GreatlyImprovedTechnology/BranchTest.git
git push -u origin main

My file setup.cmd is not in the GitHub repo, in this case, I’ll add it and I check online to confirm.

The question arises, should I have included this file in the repo, or should I have excluded any such local build files in a .gitignore file?

And as for my readme.md, GitHub kept the quote marks and didn’t render the line as markdown. I edited the line in GitHub and did a pull to resync.

That renders properly now!