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As part of the development of a CI & CD flow for the company I work at, I am building a command line program (Bash script on OSX) that

• creates a new local Git repo


• adds some default branches to this repo


• Then adds a new repo to Bitbucket using the next code:

gitUserName = Joris <-- provided by the user, this is an example
projectName = TestProject <-- provided by the user, this is an example
git remote add $projectName "https://bitbucket.org/$gitUserName/$projectName.git"

After running this command, I don't see the repository on my Bitbucket account on the website. When I try to re-run this command, it says the repository already exists.

Also, when I run git push $projectName master it says fatal: repository 'https://bitbucket.org/Joris/TestProject.git/' not found

This behavior seems inconsistent, and I have followed the Atlassian guide to set this up so I don't really understand why it doesn't add the repository as expected. I do realize that I can also just go on the BitBucket website and add the repository manually, but the purpose of my program is that it generates a fully set-up repository for a user based on as little commands as possible.

The git remote add documentation says that the command adds a remote to the local repo. This terminology is, IMO, a bit off; it would better to say it adds a remote configuration to the local repository (i.e. configures the repo to access a remote). This does not actually create the remote repo; that must be done separately.

In the case of bitbucket, the "normal" thing to do is to go to the website and create the repo through their UI. Because you're trying to automate things, you don't want to do that; so in that case, you would need to use the BitBucket REST API, which is documented here: https://developer.atlassian.com/server/bitbucket/reference/rest-api/

The "Core API" section talks about repositories and permissions, so you should be able to script out requests to (if necessary) check if the repo exists and set it up if it doesn't. You'll just need a way for your script to send HTTP requests and receive the responses.

In your machine:

Create repo:

git init 

Add branches:

git checkout -b branchX

git checkout -b branchY

git checkout -b branchZ

In Bitbucket website:

Create new repository named TestProject, allow write permissions to user Joris in settings and save. Finally copy the url of the repository, this must be something like bitbucket.mydomain:port/nameofproject/testproject.git (Notice this is all in lowcase)

In your machine:

git remote add origin theURL

git push origin *:* 

git push origin --tags

The last is the command to push all your local repo, this will overwrite the history and tags in your remote repo, but since is a new repo it doesn't matter.