Creating a repository on GitHub

A repository contains all of your project's files and each file's revision history. You can discuss and manage your project's work within the repository.

You can restrict who has access to a repository by choosing a repository's visibility: public, internal, or private.

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

You can generate a new repository with the same directory structure and files as an existing repository.

You can add a README file to your repository to tell other people why your project is useful, what they can do with your project, and how they can use it.

You can use a CODEOWNERS file to define individuals or teams that are responsible for code in a repository.

The files and directories within a repository determine the languages that make up the repository. You can view a repository's languages to get a quick overview of the repository.

Public repositories on GitHub are often used to share open source software. For your repository to truly be open source, you'll need to license it so that others are free to use, change, and distribute the software.

You can make an existing repository a template, so you and others can generate new repositories with the same directory structure, branches, and files.

GitHub does not provide issues-only access permissions, but you can accomplish this using a second repository which contains only the issues.

Certain types of resources can be quite large, requiring excessive processing on GitHub. Because of this, limits are set to ensure requests complete in a reasonable amount of time.

To duplicate a repository without forking it, you can run a special clone command, then mirror-push to the new repository.