Once you have the Git repository on your local machine, you can set up a GitHub “remote.” But it sounds like the first step is just to learn how to use Git more generally. For that, I learned with something like this: Version Control with Git (The old version also showed how to link up with GitHub but that seems to have been replaced with this.) And I think it was @shaun that recommended this video for understanding Git: [Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up - YouTube