Create a private github repo in an organisation using the CLI

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Create a private github repo in an organisation using the CLI

Today I've had some fun trying to understand how to that, as I couldn't find any example around here we go.

If your user has admin rights in an organisation then you can create a private repository, to find out if you're in such position just execute

curl -u "$user:$token" https://api.github.com/orgs/$organisation/teams

which should return an array of teams

[{
  ...
}, {
  "name": "devs",
  "id": 123456,
  "slug": "devs",
  "description": null,
  "permission": "admin",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/123456",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/123456/members{/member}",
  "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/123456/repos"
}, {
  ...
}]

If permission is "admin" then you're fine and you can use the id value for the next call

curl -u "$user:$token" https://api.github.com/orgs/$organisation/repos -d '{
  "name": "your-repo-name", 
  "private": true, 
  "team_id": 123456
}'

...and that's it. Pretty straightforward, yes I know, but still it took me over 2 hours to figure it out.

Here are the links to the relevant APIs

• https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/teams/#list-teams
• https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#create