New repository creation page

[patrick-knight]

Thanks for trying out the new repository creation page.

The updated page makes it easier to create new repositories with a consistent modern experience.

The most significant change affects organizations and enterprises using custom repository properties and repository policies. Now, custom property inputs can respond to your organization's policies, letting you set or limit repository names and visibility right at creation. This helps maintain compliance from the start.

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To switch back to the classic creation page, disable the "New repository creation page" feature preview (learn more) or select "Switch back to classic experience" at the top of the creation page.

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[Perdolique]

I can't see an option to name the default branch as master. It creates main by default.

[patrick-knight]

That can be controlled today via repository settings. So if you are creating a repo on your account you'd set the default branch name here: https://github.com/settings/repositories

If it's a repos in an organization it would be managed via that organizations repo settings:
https://github.com/organizations/`org-name`/settings/repository-defaults

[Perdolique]

🤔 Thanks. Never heard about this input.

[ZianTT]

A bug report:

GitHub don't support "\n" in desc now, but the new creation page allow this. Finally it will cause an error with no hint.

maybe adding a limit is better? or add some hint more than "Repository creation failed"?

[patrick-knight]

Thanks for the note, do you have the full description you can share so we can try to reproduce this internally.

[ZianTT]

Thanks for the note, do you have the full description you can share so we can try to reproduce this internally.

just try to use following:

foo
bar

[patrick-knight]

Ohhhh! Sorry I read that as an actual \n in the description text not as a newline.

We'll take a look!

[patrick-knight]

Hey @ZianTT,
Wanted to follow-up and let you know we updated the text area interface to a single line to avoid newline inputs. Unfortunately supporting new lines on repository descriptions across the platform got quickly out of scope, but we'll keep it in mind for future improvements.

[gugs881]

I tested the new repository creation page and found it very good, clean and intuitive. I hadn't noticed this new experience before, and it really made the process easier.

[merlinz01]

LGTM.

Feature suggestion: Add a "Create me" button on 404 pages under one's own account prefix, which takes you to the repository creation page and prefills the repository name based on the URL of the 404 page.

Then when I do this:

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo
$ git push -u origin main
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/user/repo/' not found

then I can just click the link and go straight to creating the repository.

[patrick-knight]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on improving our 404 page. I appreciate the input. However, our 404 page serves multiple purposes beyond just indicating a repository doesn't exist, so we may not be able to implement your suggestion at this time.

If you're looking to quickly create new repositories from the command line, I highly recommend checking out the GitHub CLI. With a simple command gh repo create, you can spin up a new repo.

After your initial local commit you could even run something like this to create the repo and push up the initial commit:
repo_name=$(git remote get-url origin | sed -e 's/.*github.com[:\/]//' -e 's/\.git$//') && gh repo create "$repo_name" --public --source=. --push

[matiboux]

I've seen this a few days ago and it seems to coincide with this preview release, so I might as well point it out here:

On both the classic & preview experiences, the owner input no longer has a default selection when I open the repository creation page.

Previously, on the classic experience, my personal account would have been the default selection for the owner of the repository to create. This made the experience smoother and faster for the common operation of creating a personal repository.

Also, now has the side effect of hiding the visibility options until an owner is selected, showing the message "Please choose an owner to see the available visibility options." instead and causing UI elements to change position after an owner is selected. This causes confusion and can make the user inputs slower. This does not happen in the preview experience as visibility options are always shown in the configuration section.

This change of behavior feels like a step backwards, especially unexpected in the classic experience. 😢

Otherwise, the preview experience looks great and makes usual first steps to get started in a new repository faster, which is great! ❤️

[patrick-knight]

If you've recently been invited to GitHub Enterprise, your behavior may have changed. After being invited to an enterprise, the owner default selection becomes mandatory.

[matiboux]

Ah that is it. This is just a coincidence then!
An organization I've been in for some time was recently added in a GitHub Enterprise.
I was not aware of this behavior change, thank you.

[AyameU]

In GHEC with EMU, the preview flow includes "Public" as a visibility option. This happens when creating an organization-owned repository and a repository in my personal namespace. The classic experience does not allow the creation of public repositories (as expected).

Hoping this is a bug.

[patrick-knight]

Hey @AyameU,

Yeah that's a bug we're looking into. The repo couldn't ever get created but is something we'll get fixed to ensure that clear.

[patrick-knight]

@AyameU We just landed a fix for this, can give this a try again and see if you're seeing the same thing. Thanks!

[AyameU]

Hey @patrick-knight, the option is still showing on our end for org and personal repos.

[patrick-knight]

Hmmm...
Can you drop me an email patrick-knight [at] github.com so I can get some additional info from you