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I signed up with GitHub today and I'm struggling to understand exactly what way I should be using this.

I have downloaded the Git program and I followed the instructions to create a folder which now resides in "c:/user/app data/local/program/git". However, there is no explanation of what to do next.

Should I be developing and saving the files in this directory, or should I be doing something else? This folder seems like completely the wrong place for my project files (why don't I have them in my own directory?) So I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Anyway help appreciated, I can't find any good simple explanations on how to go from start to finish, it assumes I know the workflow for this but I do not.

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You shouldn't have a path like that.

Assuming you installed git correctly, you should be able to say

$ cd /path/to/project $ git init $ git remote add origin [github repo] $ git add . $ git commit -m "First commit!" $ git push origin master
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THAT makes sense! So I change to my project directory (for example: c/project/whatever/) then do git init etc? The guide let me to believe I create the directory from the git program and then it leaves me. okay that makes a lot of sense, thanks! I'll do that.
@user: Yes, that's how it works. Git stores everything in place, unlike SVN or CVS which use a separate central repository.

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