Create Rust GitHub repo

Overview

create-rust-github-repo is a CLI program that creates a new repository on GitHub, clones it locally, initializes a Rust project, copies the configs from a pre-existing directory.

Examples

# Create a GitHub repo & init a Rust project
create-rust-github-repo --name my-new-project
 
# Copy configs from existing project
create-rust-github-repo --name my-new-project --copy-configs-from ~/workspace/my-existing-project

# Clone to a specific directory
create-rust-github-repo --name my-new-project --dir ~/workspace/my-new-project

# Create a public repo
create-rust-github-repo --name my-new-project --public

# Create a lib instead of bin
create-rust-github-repo --name my-new-project --cargo-init-args '--lib'

Features

• Uses existing gh, git, cargo commands
• Forwards the flags to commands
• Can be used as a library

Installation

cargo install create-rust-github-repo

Usage

Usage: create-rust-github-repo [OPTIONS] --name <NAME>

Options:
  -n, --name <NAME>
          Repository name
  -d, --dir <DIR>
          Target directory for cloning the repository (must include the repo name) (defaults to "{current_dir}/{repo_name}")
  -v, --visibility <VISIBILITY>
          Repository visibility [default: private] [possible values: public, private, internal]
  -c, --copy-configs-from <COPY_CONFIGS_FROM>
          Source directory for configuration files
      --git-commit-message <GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE>
          Message for git commit [default: "Add configs"]
      --extra-configs <EXTRA_CONFIGS>
          Extra config file paths (relative to `source` directory)
      --gh-repo-create-args <GH_REPO_CREATE_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `gh repo create`
      --gh-repo-clone-args <GH_REPO_CLONE_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `gh repo clone`
      --cargo-init-args <CARGO_INIT_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `cargo init`
      --cargo-build-args <CARGO_BUILD_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `cargo build`
      --git-commit-args <GIT_COMMIT_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `git commit`
      --git-push-args <GIT_PUSH_ARGS>
          Forwarded arguments for `git push`
  -h, --help
          Print help

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.