A new GitHub repo will be created via the GitHub API, therefore you must
provide a GitHub personal access token via the argument auth_token
,
which defaults to the value of the GITHUB_PAT
environment variable.
Obtain a personal access token from
https://github.com/settings/applications. The argument protocol
reflects how you wish to authenticate with
GitHub for this repo in the long run. For either protocol
, a remote
named "origin" is created, an initial push is made using the specified
protocol
, and a remote tracking branch is set. The URL of the
"origin" remote has the form git@github.com:/.git
(protocol = "ssh"
, the default) or
https://github.com//.git
(protocol =
"https"
). For protocol = "ssh"
, it is assumed that public and
private keys are in the default locations, ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
and
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, respectively, and that ssh-agent
is configured
to manage any associated passphrase.