LinuxQuestions.org - HOW? - Create a new gitlab-repo in gitlab from CLI

I'm not sure if my understanding of English is correct or not as I've tried lots and lots for this and still won't do as I think it would.
I want to CREATE a new git-repo on my account from CLI without logging in on their website and create an empty 'project' (for me this 'project' is a new repo)

For ME a gitlab repo is the thing... object... wutever that ends with '.git'
I got one for my dotfiles and that is naturally called dotfiles.git
If I try the thing below to this "repo", the dotfiles.git it works, but for me that is not to CREATE A NEW repo, or am I waaay off?

XXX is my name on gitlab

The last thing I tried told me to:

Code:

git init

git add .

git commit -m "...."

git push --set-upstream git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git

but this gave me this error on that last command:

Code:



To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use



    git push --set-upstream git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git master



To have this happen automatically for branches without a tracking

upstream, see 'push.autoSetupRemote' in 'git help config'.

so I tried the thing it told me to do, except the 'master' thing as they are gonna change that later so I go for main:
and this happens:

Code:

git push --set-upstream git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git main

error: src refspec main does not match any

error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git'

I also tried the 'master' and this was the result:

Code:

git push --set-upstream git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git master

fatal: 'git@gitlab.com/XXX/gitlab-project.git' does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.



Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

So my question here is, can I or can I not create a NEW!!! (as for me, new) repo in gitlab from a CLI?
I got some SBC's I use and on those I got no GUI just a simple CLI but I do have network and if I do something in some code that I like I really want to backup that ASAP to, probably a NEW repo, not just add it to my dotfiles.git repo.

What is the problem?
ME or the world :( :(