How to Create a Github Repository from the Command Line
Git is a great version control system and Github is superb hosting service for git based repositories.
Github provides a nice web interface to create (blank) repositories at the start of the project. But why visit github.com to create a blank repository, so here’s a simple bash script to make this simple task even simpler.
| git-create(){ | |
| repo_name=$1 | |
| dir_name=`basename $(pwd)` | |
| if [ “$repo_name“ = ““ ]; then | |
| echo -n “Repo name [$dir_name]?: “ | |
| read repo_name | |
| fi | |
| if [ “$repo_name“ = ““ ]; then | |
| repo_name=$dir_name | |
| fi | |
| username=`git config user.name` | |
| if [ “$username“ = ““ ]; then | |
| echo -n “Could not find username, run ‘git config -global user.name <username>’“ | |
| return 1 | |
| fi | |
| token=`git config user.token` | |
| if [ “$token“ = ““ ]; then | |
| echo -n “Could not find token, run ‘git config -global user.token <token>’“ | |
| return 1 | |
| fi | |
| echo -n “Creating Github repository ‘$repo_name‘…“ | |
| curl -u “$username:$token“ https://api.github.com/user/repos -d ‘{“name”:”‘$repo_name‘“}‘ > /dev/null 2>&1 | |
| echo “Done.“ | |
| echo -n “Adding remote…“ | |
| git remote add origin git@github.com:$username/$repo_name.git | |
| echo “Done.“ | |
| } |
Script is based on Curl and GithubApi.
Add this to bash_profile and reload it. Done 🙂
Use git-create to summon 
.
Be sure to configure GitHub username and access_token in global git configure file.
Hint:
git config --global user.name <username>
git config --global user.token <access_token>
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