Create a Github Repo 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 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."
	}

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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>