First create an empty repository on GitHub, and clone it to your computer:
# If you've set up ssh use the ssh url, otherwise the https url
git clone [email protected]/shiftyp/my-awesome-repo.git
When you first create and clone your repository, checkout whatever branch you want to be your main branch (master for most things, gh-pages if a github page is all you'll be doing); touch
a README file; and push that main branch up to github.