I read the headline and hoped that they had come up with a way to create new repos from the command line. That being said, this is a great improvement, especially with the templates.
# create a repo for a new project
$ git init
$ git add . && git commit -m "It begins."
$ git create -d "My new thing"
→ (creates a new project on GitHub with the name of current directory)
$ git push -u origin master
I actually was trying to use hub as part of our workflow (pull request from feature branches) and it requires a user token that's no longer obtainable (that I could find) as github is deprecating it in favor of oauth. So I'm now building a cheap set of scripts using curl. If something has changed since this weekend, or if there is a fork or branch I missed that doesn't require the user token (or if you can get the token somehow), I'd love to know about it as hub fits all our needs perfectly.
EDIT: just checked on the issue and it looks like it had movement recently, so i'll be trying the possibly working branch.
The problem is (probably) that you are watching github.com/yourprofile, which doesn't show the dropdown. When you go to github.com itself you will see the dropdown for selecting organisations in the top-left.
It's easy for your eyeballs to gloss over those sidebars on the homepage, at top-level it looks like some detailed auxiliary info and not where you'd find critical functionality.
Same here, my thought process whenever I see a new notification goes something like: "someone commented on my pull request? Two weeks ago? And I already replied to it?"
GitHub really needs to allow users to control their notifications and activity feed with finer granularity.
There are projects I work on, which I want to appear in my activity feed. There are projects I want to bookmark, which I don't want in my activity feed.
Right now the signal:noise ratio is terrible for activity feed and notifications.
That's really important. Also if you e.g. receive a notification per email about something and go on this page by clicking the link it should remove the unread notification for this particular thing.
Sidenote motivated by "If you need to upgrade your account to add a private repository, you can now do that inside of the new repository screen." : You'd be really shocked how valuable paying attention to thirty seconds of the user experience can be when they're the thirty seconds separating an established software company from tens of thousands of credit cards.
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Whoa, I had just used that feature last week. It used to be on the 'Account Settings' page near the password fields.
Requires Python 2.7 and Requests.
That works but is rather counter-intuitive...
That said, I would have sworn sometimes there's a small dropdown next to my username with the organizations in it. But right now I can't reproduce it.
You land on three different pages for these links:
The solution is simple:These 3 pages must be combined into one and the organizations-dropdown must be made visible on all pages.
It's pretty obvious in hindsight, I can only assume the github frontenders are suffering from routine-blindness.
Github has /so/ much more to fix before moving the New Repo button up to the top bar.
Cluttered news feed and activity stream and redundant notifications are issues that need desperate attention. Github, please fix them ASAP.
There are projects I work on, which I want to appear in my activity feed. There are projects I want to bookmark, which I don't want in my activity feed.
Right now the signal:noise ratio is terrible for activity feed and notifications.
That's really important. Also if you e.g. receive a notification per email about something and go on this page by clicking the link it should remove the unread notification for this particular thing.