REST API - include topics to be added as part of repository creation / updation

[githubofkrishnadhas]

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REST API - include topics to be added as part of repository creation / updation

I have been looking into the REST api provided by Github for developers. this is very useful for large and small projects to automate repo creation programattically.

I have been wondering why the repo creation / repositotry updation end points are not equipped to include topic as a argument for its operations. i was reffering the below doc.

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-an-organization-repository

I am not sure this is the right place, if not please guide me to the right place.

The use case is: as we know topics can be used to group repos of same topic / ideas .this can be helpful in including along with api.

[githubofkrishnadhas]

Hi @mgriffin @jmeridth @zackfern @elisealix22 any updates on it

[mgriffin]

@githubofkrishnadhas I can't say why you can't create topics when creating a new repository through the API, but the way to do it is to use the replace all repository topics endpoint after creating your repository.

[githubofkrishnadhas]

I understood this can be used as a fixture. But this would cost an api call more. Thanks for pointing this out