How to Automate a Github Repo With a Line of Code on Linux

Introducing updated version of Gitstart

Shinichi Okada

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5 min readJun 2, 2021

Gitstart automates creating a Github repository.

For example:

gitstart -d new_repo

This creates .gitignore, a license.txt, a README.md file, run add, commit and push to create a new repo at GitHub.com.

I have explained how to install Gitstart on macOS. Here is how to install Gitstart on a Linux system. I use Ubuntu 20.04 for this example, but the method should be the same for other Linux systems.

Install Gitstart with Homebrew

I just create my first Homebrew formula for Gitstart. It will automate creating a Github repo.

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Prerequisites

Gitstart requires a YAML processor yq and Github CLI gh.

Installing `yq`

sudo apt install yq -y

See other installation methods for yq.

Installing `gh`

Download a deb file from the release page. And use the apt install command. For example:

sudo apt install ./gh_1.14.0_linux_arm64.deb