Potherca

Ever had the need to create a branch in a repo on Github without wanting (or being able) to access a local repo?

With the aid of [the Github API][1] and any online request app this is a piece of cake!

Just follow these steps:

1. Open an online request app (like apirequest.io, hurl.it pipedream.com, reqbin.com, or webhook.site)
2. Find the revision you want to branch from. Either on Github itself or by doing a GET request from Hurl: https://api.github.com/repos/<AUTHOR>/<REPO>/git/refs/heads
3. Copy the revision hash
4. Do a POST request from Hurl to https://api.github.com/repos/<AUTHOR>/<REPO>/git/refs with the following as the POST body :

aemkei

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
 as the name is changed.

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE