Add Create A Private Repo From The CLI as a GitHub TIL

github/create-a-private-repo-from-the-cli.md

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+# 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.