Starting a new repository - quickly

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These steps show you how to get up and running fast with a new repository on Github.
In the steps, I am logged in to Github as "s5b", and I am creating a new repository 
named "timeshiek".

1. Login to the Github web interface: <https://github.com/>.

2. Create a new repository, and while creating it mark the initialisation checkbox.

3. Copy the "git@github.com:s5b/timeshiek.git" string from the website into your clipboard.

3. On your local machine: change directories to the parent directory of where you want
   the new repository to exist. (For example: in my case I have a directory named ~/workspace
   which contains all my working projects so I would type: cd ~/workspace)

4. Enter the following command: git clone git@github.com:s5b/timeshiek.git

5. Change directories into your new directory: cd timeshiek

6. Start work...