git init If you already had a repository ready to go, you'd just need to cd to that directory and then run the git init command in there instead. Either way, your local repository is ready to go ...

Once the folder is ready, right-click it and select RabbitVCS Git | Initialize Repository (Figure A). Figure A Initializing our new project from within Nautilus.

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