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John Coffin
10,359 PointsHow Does One Add a Repository to GitHub using Git Command-line Calls Only?
To start a new repository, I would like to do what AndroidStudio does in the video using Git command-line calls only:
1) Create a new project locally 2) Initialize this as a git repository (i.e. "git init"). 3) Commit the changes (i.e. "git init -a -m 'initial commit'") 4) Without doing anything in GitHub, do something with git, the result of which is that this repo show up in GitHub
To me this seems like a fairly common use case: I want to make my current folder a repository "in-place" so that I don't have to deal with any of the risks of copying or moving files around.
I thought that there was a way to create a remote and then push the commits, but this doesn't appear to work (it couldn't find the repository to put it in). I then found this, which has an extra step of creating the repository on GitHub first (FYI, this didn't work either ... something about permissions on the push).
PS Sorry about this: I thought there was something in the courses that covered this, but I've watched Git Basics and Using Git for Android over again but I can't find it.
2 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsYou can do it using curl (if you are on Windows, you'll have to install it)
curl -u USER https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{ "name": "REPO" }'
Make sure to replace USER and REPO with your github username and the name of the repository you want to create respectively
Ariel Guzman
7,872 PointsIf you already have a repository created, you can do an init, an add and then a push.
$ git init
$ git add remote origin http://example@exampleurl.com/repository-path
the url being your username and the path to your repository, once done you can do an initial push indicating your branch.
$ git push -u origin master.
James Barnett answer is a better approach anyways because it lets you create the repository from the command line.
James Barnett
39,199 Points> better approach anyways because it lets you create the repository from the command line.
You definitely need the commands you referenced after you create the create repo from the command line.