# 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!
