Creating a new remote repository on GitHub using git remote add origin

Question

I following a Git tutorial and I've got stuck on the creation of a new remote repository.

I've understood that the command git remote add origin would create a new repo named testingGit on https://github.com/natalisilverio/ but visiting the list of my repositories I can see that it was not created.

My intention is to learn how to create a remote repository using terminal and not in github.com. Is that possible? If if yes, what I am doing wrong?

Here follows the entire code I typed in terminal:

git init

git remote add origin https://github.com/natalisilverio/testingGit.git

git add test.rtf

git commit -m "adding test.rtf”

git remote add origin https://github.com/natalisilverio/testingGit.git 

git push -u origin master (and then I provide my user and password)

remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/natalisilverio/testingGit.git/' not found

Thank you very much

Answer 1

The command git remote add origin will not create a new repository on github.

Adding a remote is simply saying "here is a URL to another copy of this repository". In order to satisfy this you would still need to have created the repository on github first.

Creating a repository on github in this way is not a common usage, but it is possible via the Github API .

More likely, you will want to create your repository first on github and then clone it locally. Or if you already have a local project, you can create a new repository on Github (via the web interface) and add your project to it. See Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line .

Answer 2

As far as I know it's not possible using plain Git commands. Though in case of Github you can use Github API to do so.

This should create a new remote repository

curl -u "natalisilverio" -d "{\"name\":\"testingGit\"}" https://api.github.com/user/repos

or 

curl -u "natalisilverio" -d '{"name":"testingGit"}' https://api.github.com/user/repos

*Edits

Entering this command should directly ask for the user's password. If you want to pass the password in the first command directly it can be done as below

curl -u "username:password" -d '{"name":"new-repo-name"}'

However this may leave your password in the command line history (for example in .bashhistory) so be careful.

Git command git remote add just keeps track of existing remote repositories. I does a little more than to define a variable to hold remote repository link for current local repository.