---
title: "create repository"
method: POST
path: "/repositories"
tags: ["repositories"]
---

# create repository

`POST /repositories`

## Query parameters

- `bare` boolean

## Request body

- RepositoryCreation
  - `name` string, required
  - `storage_id` string — Unique identifier of the underlying data store. *EXPERIMENTAL*
  - `storage_namespace` string, required — Filesystem URI to store the underlying data in (e.g. "s3://my-bucket/some/path/")
  - `default_branch` string
  - `sample_data` boolean
  - `read_only` boolean

## Response `201`

repository

- Repository
  - `id` string, required
  - `creation_date` integer, required — Unix Epoch in seconds
  - `default_branch` string, required
  - `storage_id` string — Unique identifier of the underlying data store. *EXPERIMENTAL*
  - `storage_namespace` string, required — Filesystem URI to store the underlying data in (e.g. "s3://my-bucket/some/path/")
  - `read_only` boolean — Whether the repository is a read-only repository- not relevant for bare repositories

## Other responses

- `400` — Validation Error
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `409` — Resource Conflicts With Target
- `429` — too many requests
- `default` — Internal Server Error

## Changes

- **2025-07-29** `27799ffec9a5` — 2 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `420`
- **2025-01-18** `6f53578edb07` — 2 info
  - added the new optional request property `storage_id`
  - added the optional property `storage_id` to the response with the `201` status
- **2024-09-17** `3b10653a8013` — 2 warning, 2 info
  - removed the request property `storage_id`
  - removed the optional property `storage_id` from the response with the `201` status
  - added the non-success response with the status `420`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `429`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/treeverse/apis/lakefs-api/changes/repositories/post.md)

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