Create a new GIT repository - Connect a local git repository to a server

mkdir /path/to/your/project 

cd /path/to/your/project

git init 

git remote add origin https://user@hostname/path/to/git/repository.git

echo "This is for creating a new file." >> readme.txt

git add readme.txt

git commit -m 'Initial commit' 

git push -u origin master