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To create a CICD pipeline for your project, you need a git repository. This repository 
will contain all the source code of your project and will be the source to trigger your 
pipeline.

For this lab, you will use AWS CodeCommit for your project's git repository. We have 
already pre-created a Code Commit repsoitory in your team's AWS Account. Click the 
following link to open the AWS CodeCommit console in a new tab of your browser.

[**AWS CodeCommit repo**](https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/codesuite/codecommit/repositories/quiz-app/browse?region=us-west-2)

### Initialize Git

Now, you need to push your source code into your AWS CodeCommit repository. You will 
create 2 branches in your repository - **master** and **develop**. 

**master** branch is the release branch of your project. You will not make any changes 
to the master branch directly. 

**develop** branch is your development branch. Any changes you are making in your code, 
you will do it in the develop branch. When you push your changes to the remote develop 
branch, pipeline will get triggered, which will test your changes and if the tests are 
successfully finished, develop branch will be merged into the master branch.

Follow the below steps to push your changes from your development environment to the 
AWS CodeCommit repository, in your AWS account.

1. Goto your development environment and in the terminal window, run the following 
command to make sure you are in the **lab5/cfn-project** folder - 
`cd /workshop/lab5/cfn-project/`.

2. Run `git init`, to initialize the git repository in your project folder. This will 
automatically create and checkout the **master** branch.

3. Replace **YOUR-NAME** with your name, in `git config user.name "YOUR-NAME"` and run 
it to configure your git username.

4. Replace **YOUR-NAME** with your name, in `git config user.email "EMAIL@YOUR.DOMAIN"` and run
it to configure your git email address.

5. Run `git commit --allow-empty -m "root commit"`, to make an empty commit to the 
master branch. Git doesn't allow to push empty branches to the remote repository. 
Therefore you are creating an empty commit by running this command.

6. Run `git checkout -b develop`, to make the **develop** branch as your working 
directory.

7. Run `git add .`, to stage all your changes.

8. Run `git commit -m "Initial code"`, to commit your changes locally.

8. Go to the [Event Engine dashboard](https://dashboard.eventengine.run/) and copy 
**CodeCommit git URL**. Replace **CODE-COMMIT-REPO-URL** with the URL you copied in the 
following command and run it. `git remote add origin CODE-COMMIT-REPO-URL`.

10. Run `git push origin --all`, to push your changes to the remote repository. When 
prompted, enter the AWS CodeCommit git username and password, which you can get from 
your team's dashboard.

Go to your AWS CodeCommit repository and you should see the source code in the 
**develop** branch. **master** branch will be empty.