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+You can name this file “README.md”. In this empty workspace, add any details you want about your repository! You can always come back and change this later. Be sure to save this file, and commit your changes right away on GitHub to the main branch.
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+Back in your code editor, you'll want to pull these changes and see that new commit reflected on the main branch!
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+You should see the resulting output should look similar to the following:
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+1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) 
+create mode 100644 README.md