A repository is like a folder for your project. Your project's repository contains all of your project's files and stores each file's revision history. You can also discuss and manage your project's work within the repository.

You can create a new repository on your personal account or any organization where you have sufficient permissions.

Tip: Owners can restrict repository creation permissions in an organization. For more information, see "Restricting repository creation in your organization."

Tip: You can also create a repository using the GitHub CLI. For more information, see "gh repo create" in the GitHub documentation.

Optionally, if you chose to use a template, to include the directory structure and files from all branches in the template, and not just the default branch, select Include all branches.

In the Owner drop-down, select the account you wish to create the repository on.

Type a name for your repository, and an optional description.

Choose a repository visibility. For more information, see "About repository visibility."

If you're not using a template, there are a number of optional items you can pre-populate your repository with. If you're importing an existing repository to GitHub, don't choose any of these options, as you may introduce a merge conflict. You can add or create new files using the user interface or choose to add new files using the command line later. For more information, see "Importing a Git repository using the command line," "Adding a file to a repository using the command line," and "Addressing merge conflicts."

which is a document describing your project. For more information, see "About READMEs."

which is a set of ignore rules. For more information, see "Ignoring files."

For more information, see "Licensing a repository."

Button to create repository At the bottom of the resulting Quick Setup page, under "Import code from an old repository", you can choose to import a project to your new repository. To do so, click Import code.