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Can't Add Any Extras When Creating the GitHub Project

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#55 opened on Jun 24, 2019

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Description

Describe the bug

GitHub provides a few options when configuring a new repo like: license, .gitignore file, a README.md, and the Rennovate plugin. If you want to install any of these by default, which I usually do, then you get an error about the remote having newer content.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a repo with a readme during the script
  2. See the error.

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Research direction
Investigate the GitHub API call for creating a repository with initial files and handle the case when the remote already has content.
Tech stack
javascript
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api
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Bug
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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Git
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70