The first step of backing up a local repo on GitHub: create an empty repository on GitHub.
You can create a remote repository based on an existing local repository, to serve as a remote copy of you local repo. For example, suppose you created a local repo and worked with it for a while, but now you want to upload it onto GitHub. The first step is to create an empty repository on GitHub.
HANDS-ON: Creating an empty remote repo
1 Login to your GitHub account and choose to create a new repo.
2 In the next screen, provide a name for your repo but keep the Initialize this repo ... tick box unchecked.
3 Note the URL of the repo. It will be of the form https://github.com/{your_user_name}/{repo_name}.git.
e.g., https://github.com/johndoe/foobar.git (note the .git at the end)
