How to create a new repo at Github using git bash?

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How can I create a new repository from my machine using git bash?

I followed the below steps: 

mkdir ~/Hello-World

cd ~/Hello-World

git init

touch README

git add README

git commit -m 'first commit'

git remote add origin https://github.com/username/Hello-World.git

git push origin master

But I'm getting "Fatal error: did you run update-server-info on the server? "

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8 Answers

Overview

Command 'git' do not allow you to create repo but it's possible to create new repo at github from BASH script. All solutions use user/password authentication which is deplicated but stil in use. Authentication must be done using personal access token. Below there are solutions:

3rd party application

https://github.com/github/hub

sudo apt install hub;
cd <folder with code>;
hub init;
hub create -p -d "<repo description>" -h "<project site>" \
"user_name>/<repo_name>";

More options: https://hub.github.com/hub-create.1.html

Pure BASH

REPONAME="TEST";
DOMAIN="www.example.com";
DESCRIPTION="Repo Description";
GITHUB_USER="github_user";

FOLDER="$HOME/temp/$REPONAME";
mkdir -p "$FOLDER"; cd "$FOLDER";

read -r -d '' JSON_TEMPLATE << EOF
{
  "name" : "%s",
  "description" : "%s",
  "homepage" : "%s",
  "visibility" : "private",
  "private" : true,
  "has_issues" : false,
  "has_downloads" : false,
  "has_wiki" : false,
  "has_projects" : false
}
EOF

JSON_OUTPUT=$(printf "$JSON_TEMPLATE" "$REPO_NAME" \
  "$DESCRIPTION" "http://$DOMAIN");

# https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#create-an-organization-repository
curl -u ${GITHUB_USER} https://api.github.com/user/repos \
  -d "$JSON_OUTPUT"
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