gitauto

A command line tool to automate GitHub project creation locally as well as remotely.

Getting Started

• To get started with using gitauto, you will need a Personal Access Token from GitHub. This token can be used to authenticate everytime you give commands. (Make sure to check Write Repo and Read Repo while creating the TOKEN)

• Learn about getting a Personal Access Token from GitHub, here.

• You can specify a project directory where you want all your GitHub Projects to go.

• Create a .env file in the C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/gitauto-cli/ directory with the following parameters.

TOKEN=****************************************
USER=YourUsername
FOLDER=C:/Users/<Username>/Documents/MyProjects/

Prerequisites

This tool requires npm and Node.js to be installed in your system. Run the following commands:

npm --version
node --version

If you get no errors, you're probably good to go.

Installing

Install using npm:

npm install gitauto-cli -g

Note: Don't forget to use the -g flag to install it globally in your system.

Usage

gitauto offers two commands create and delete

create

gitauto create myNewRepo

• It creates a remote repository myNewRepo in your GitHub account.
• Creates a new project with the same name in the directory specified in the .env file in your local system.
• Initializes Git init with a README.md file.
• Commits these changes with message "Initial Commit".
• Adds remote origin to the local repository.
• Pushes all the changes to the remote repository.

create with flag(-o)

gitauto create myNewRepo -o

• The -o or --only flag specifies that ONLY a remote repository is to be created.
• Creates a remote repository myNewRepo in your GitHub account and displays the URL.
• No file changes are made to the system.

delete

gitauto delete myNewRepo

• It deletes remote repository with the name myNewRepo from your GitHub account.
• Looks for project with the same name in the directory specified in the .env file in your local system and deletes it.
• Used for deleting repos existing both on local system as well as remotely.

delete with flag(-o)

gitauto delete myNewRepo -o

• The -o or --only flag specifies that ONLY the remote repository is to be deleted.
• No file changes are made to the system.

Author

• Nakshatra Saxena - GitHub

Built With

• Octokit - GitHub REST API client for JavaScript
• Commander - The complete solution for node.js command-line programs
• Chalk - Terminal string styling done right

LICENSE

MIT