To start a local repository, we need to ensure that we are within the folder that contains the files we want to begin tracking. Instantiating a local repository allows us to add files, commit them, and push them up to the remote repository that others can clone and work from. For our example, we will add the Drupal 8 instance we just created.
Begin by opening a Terminal window and entering the following command:
git init
The preceding command is illustrated in the following image:
