A Github repository is basically a folder designed to store files. It is also available online for anyone to download, access, and contribute to the files/code within the folder.

Jack Wallen shows you how to add a GitHub shortcut to a Jira project so you can view information about branches, commits and pull requests.

GitHub’s ‘upload file’ feature is rolling out over the next few days, so look for it next time you’re adding to a repository. Upload files to your repositories [GitHub] ...

For example, you can clone a GitHub repository on your local machine and copy existing project files there, or invoke git init and git remote add commands to update remote references.