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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Working With Git Repositories

Posted by Michael Ott
Michael Ott
3,149 Points

Getting Started With Git, Challenge Part III

The Challenge says to "..create a repository in a new folder..."

My response: git init a_new_folder/

Treehouse says this is the wrong command. What am I missing?

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

try removing the trailing slash

git init a_new_folder