Create a new repository on the command line

Setting_upa_new_repo.md

Setting up a new Git Repo

##Create a new repository on the command line

touch README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin git@github.com:alexpchin/<reponame>.git
git push -u origin master

##Push an existing repository from the command line

git remote add origin git@github.com:alexpchin/<reponame>.git
git push -u origin master

I am not sure how I missed entering "\" in my earlier command.
Here is the correct command: curl -u Amruth-Smaragdine https://api.github.com/user/repos -d "{\"name\": \"testrepo\"}"
Extremely sorry for the confusion. Please accept my apologies.
In MS Windows the double quotes have to be shared with the help of a "\", which is normally used for escape sequence in normal coding procedures.

Reference Screenshots:

Note: I have identified something that I ignored earlier. In my earlier comment, I have not included the text with <> insert code option, hence the "\" was not getting previewed.

Thanks a ton. You made me realize my mistakes.

@Amruth-Smaragdine Success! (see the attached image).

I'll update my initial comment giving you the full credit. Thank you very much!.

Thanks a ton, @ziizium - I am happy that I could contribute something that helps everyone.

There is this project from github.
Works like a charm.
https://github.com/github/hub

memeing stackoverflow:
this should be an accepted answer

There is this project from github.
Works like a charm.
https://github.com/github/hub

memeing stackoverflow:
this should be an accepted answer

This is actually pretty good. Actually this solution is amazing, cheers for sharing!

The offical GitHub CLI is now out of beta: https://github.com/cli/cli
Create a repo with gh repo create [<name>]
Docs: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_create

@HermanNygaard Thank you for your contribution, I'll definitely have a look.

so I thought I'd leave this here to help everyone else who was having similar issues:

mkdir myDirName    #this is the name of your directory
cd /myDirName
git init
touch readME.md   #this is to create an initial file to push
git commit -m "enter commit message here"
git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_USERNAME/myDirName.git

curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"myDirName"}' #this will create the repo in github.

# if you haven't generated and SSH key for github access then follow these steps, otherwise you're good to push your shit to github.
eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "email@yourdomain.com" #this should be your github email address
## you'll be prompted to a couple of times. Press enter for the first prompt. choose a passphrase for the second prompt, or press enter twice for no passphrase
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa   #this is your private key
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub   # copy the output of this command. this is your SSH public key
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://api.github.com/user/keys -d '{"title":"KEY_NAME", "key":"YOUR_RSA_PUBLIC_KEY_HERE"}'   #the value you copied earlier and your keyname. I recommend using a combination of machine name and app (My-laptop (Git CLI)
git push -u origin master

You can certainly change the order of steps and do the curl commands ssh generation first to create the repo and push the keys, but I used this flow just because.

thanks! it helped.

Anyone who wants to have their own project.sh simple do varible $name I have modified the code above based on code above.

echo Please Provide New Repo Name:
read  name

mkdir $name    #this is the name of your directory
cd /$name
git init
touch $name/readME.md   #this is to create an initial file to push
git commit -m "enter commit message here"
git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_USERNAME/$name.git

curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"'$name'"}' #this will create the repo in github.

# if you haven't generated and SSH key for github access then follow these steps, otherwise you're good to push your shit to github.
eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "email@yourdomain.com" #this should be your github email address
## you'll be prompted to a couple of times. Press enter for the first prompt. choose a passphrase for the second prompt, or press enter twice for no passphrase
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa   #this is your private key
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub   # copy the output of this command. this is your SSH public key
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://api.github.com/user/keys -d '{"title":"KEY_NAME", "key":"YOUR_RSA_PUBLIC_KEY_HERE"}'   #the value you copied earlier and your keyname. I recommend using a combination of machine name and app (My-laptop (Git CLI)
git push -u origin master

worked

I have created this script. It allows for a repo to be created from terminal without having to create it on github/bitbucket first.

It uses Personal Access Token for authentication on github and regular user:password auth on bitbucket

git-new CLI

Worked like a charm, thank you!

how to create new repo in CLI?

how to create new repo in CLI?

just write gh repo create [name] [--flags] (brackets means optional values)

I think instead of SSH , This Might also Works Fine!!

curl https://api.github.com/user/repos?access_token=myAccessToken -d '{"name":"REPO ANME"}'

If you Don't have an Access Token You could Just go to Git Hub Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens and Get your Token Replace that in the Curl Command.

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/user name/Repo name.git

git remote add origin https://github.com/user name/repo name.git

git push -u origin main

And yeah!! you are all Set!!

Go ahead and Have Fun!!

This command worked for me.

curl -u USERNAME:ACCESS_TOKEN https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"myDirName"}' #this will create the repo in github.

I doesn't work if I just enter my username and wait for the password prompt, or enter my password after my username. I'm not sure why, but the access token worked first time, no stress.

Does anyone know why it fails with username & password? just out of interest, I suspect it's a security issue.

@nettcaster87. you should using PAT (Personal Access Token) for authentication.
$ curl -u username:token https://api.github.com/user

The current methods are depreciated
Here's the reference.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/other-authentication-methods#via-oauth-and-personal-access-tokens.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/basics-of-authentication#accepting-user-authorization.

ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

SOLUTION --------
use command

1. git remote -v
2. git remote remove origin (remote name)

git config
git init
git clone
git add
git commit
git diff
git reset
git status
git rm
git log
git show
git tag
git branch
git checkout
git merge
git remote
git push
git pull
git stash

Never works for me. I think git was created as a joke.

If you still need to do the whole create repo on github website.
Just create repo, git clone and then push. So commands are just useless.

The above example talks creating repo at user level, how to create remote repo at organizational level. Thanks

@Amruth-Smaragdine
" curl -u USERNAME:PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"myDirName"}' #this will create the repo in github.
This last command will save your Personal Access Token or password in your Bash history. If I find a way to prevent this I will update this comment."

The way to keep the PAC key from bash history is to use one space in front of any command.

If you want to delete the last history line manually use:
history -d $(($HISTCMD - 2)); history -w;
Or find the line number and use:
history -d <line number>; history -w;

since August 2021, using bare HTTPS with a username/password no longer works to create a repo on git. Instead, use a PAT (Personal Access token) created in the web API.

The samples above return:
{ "message": "Requires authentication", "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/repos#create-a-repository-for-the-authenticated-user" }

Here's the way that will create a repository using cmdline:

curl -H "Authorization: token {your_personal_access_token}" https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"{new_repo_name}"}'

@Amondale Thanks for the reply, however I am still getting a Bad Credentials error. I also noticed that this command does not issue username...is there a previous command which you used? Thanks.

I still have some issues when using this command on Linux so I just switched to using the GitHub CLI package (apt install gh) and gh repo create <newrepo> --public. gh auth login has a quick little login utility.

hey @devxnsh if you set up your PAT in the web browser correctly, it won't be requiring the username/password, see this article for more info. Now that gh is out of beta, it should be the best approach rather than doing curling, as the Canadians say, eh?/

if i create new repository in git i want see automatically this step , how to create new repository in command line

I create a remote repo regarding flutter, and when i push the code to main, it displays that you don't have permission for this repo, access denied,
I think the problem was someone already has created the repo with same name which i tried to put.

If you go to the repo on your profile it now tells you these instructions.

First of all use github cli

gh

Authenticate github to use command line

gh auth login
 

Once you successfully authenticated , now you can create your repo from command line

gh repo create repo-name --flag

Here the repo-name could be the repo name you want to use and --flag is if you want to make the repo private or public if you want to make it public use --public for private --private
for example this will create myrepo as public repository
gh repo create myrepo --public
once you created the repo, now you can initiate git in your current directory project using

git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/<reponame>.git
git push -u origin master 

to add the rest of your files use

git add .
git commit -m "Upload rest of files"
git push

if you face any error , you might need to check which branch is in use , you can change the branch using the following command

git branch -M main 

now you can push the file to your repo

git push -u origin main