📘 GitHub CLI Automation Guide With aliases

This guide will help you install GitHub CLI, set up convenient aliases for quickly creating repositories, and use them.

🚀 Installing GitHub CLI

📌 On Arch Linux (using pacman)

sudo pacman -S github-cli

📌 On Debian/Ubuntu (using apt)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install gh

After installation, check the functionality of the command:

gh --version

🔑 Authorization in GitHub CLI

Before using GitHub CLI you need to log in:

gh auth login

Select GitHub.com, then your login method (browser or token).

⚡ Configuring Aliases

To simplify repository creation, add the following aliases to your ~/.bashrc file:

echo "alias gh-create-readme='git init -b main && echo \"# init repo + README.md\" > README.md && \
git add README.md && git commit -m \"Initial commit\" && \
gh repo create --private --source=. --remote=origin && \
git push -u --all'" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "alias gh-create-main='git init -b main && git add . && git commit -m \"create local branch remote origin and push to remote.\" && \
gh repo create --private --source=. --remote=origin && \
git push -u --all'" >> ~/.bashrc

echo "alias gh-create-remote='git add . && git commit -m \"create remote origin and push to remote.\" && \
gh repo create --private --source=. --remote=origin && \
git push -u --all'" >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

🛠 Alias Descriptions

Alias ​​	Description
gh-create-readme	Initializes the repository with main branch, creates README.md, commits and pushes it to GitHub to the new repo with same name as the current directory
gh-create-main	Initializes the repository with main branch, adds all files, commits and pushes them to GitHub to the new repo with same name as the current directory
gh-create-remote	Creates a remote repository with same name as the current directory and pushes the localy initiated repoitory with all branches to it (without git init)

🎯 Usage

Run any of the following commands inside a project directory:

gh-create-readme  # Initializes a repo with a README and pushes it to GitHub to the new repo with same name as the current directory
gh-create-main    # Initializes a repo with all files and pushes it to GitHub to the new repo with same name as the current directory
gh-create-remote  # Creates a GitHub repo from an existing local repo and pushes to the new repo with same name as the current directory

🔥 Now creating and publishing repositories on GitHub is done in one command! 🚀