From 91a69640d82e7801835b42c9b2453fc78f84b399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:22:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Create A Private Repo From The CLI as a GitHub TIL

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 README.md                                    |  3 +-
 github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b36c2e2..542c4c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ working across different projects via [VisualMode](https://www.visualmode.dev/).
 
 For a steady stream of TILs, [sign up for my newsletter](https://visualmode.kit.com/newsletter).
 
-_1891 TILs and counting..._
+_1892 TILs and counting..._
 
 See some of the other learning resources I work on:
 
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ If you've learned something here, support my efforts writing daily TILs by
 ### GitHub
 
 - [Access Your GitHub Profile Photo](github/access-your-github-profile-photo.md)
+- [Create A Private Repo From The CLI](github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md)
 - [Create And Push To New Repo From CLI](github/create-and-push-to-new-repo-from-cli.md)
 - [List PRs Awaiting Your Review](github/list-prs-awaiting-your-review.md)
 - [Open A PR To An Unforked Repo](github/open-a-pr-to-an-unforked-repo.md)
diff --git a/github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md b/github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md
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index 0000000..8831988
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Create A Private Repo From The CLI
+
+The vast majority of the GitHub repos that I've created over my career have been
+done from the web UI. It was only recently that I found out that [I can create a
+new repo from the CLI with `gh`](create-and-push-to-new-repo-from-cli.md).
+
+A repo can be created for the current directory (where a local git repo already
+exists) using the `gh repo create` command. I'm wanting this to be a private
+repo so I can include the `--private` flag instead of the `--public` flag.
+
+```bash
+❯ gh repo create marathon-training --private --source=. --remote=origin --push
+✓ Created repository jbranchaud/marathon-training on github.com
+  https://github.com/jbranchaud/marathon-training
+✓ Added remote https://github.com/jbranchaud/marathon-training.git
+Enumerating objects: 125, done.
+Counting objects: 100% (125/125), done.
+Delta compression using up to 16 threads
+Compressing objects: 100% (114/114), done.
+Writing objects: 100% (125/125), 56.69 KiB | 14.17 MiB/s, done.
+Total 125 (delta 52), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
+remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (52/52), done.
+To https://github.com/jbranchaud/marathon-training.git
+ * [new branch]      HEAD -> main
+branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main' by rebasing.
+✓ Pushed commits to https://github.com/jbranchaud/marathon-training.git
+```
+
+Since I am running this command from the root directory of the git-backed
+project, I specify the `--source` as `.` (mean _here_, the current directory).
+The remaining flags tell it what the remote should be set up as and that I want
+to push this local repo up to the GitHub remote once it is created.
+
+See `gh repo create --help` for more details.