diff --git a/features/authentication.feature b/features/authentication.feature
index 8275cf7b4174df0d19bcfd40b18c1ea24b02441e..038d56027c0604bfc2acd687db4f28667e25b619 100644
--- a/features/authentication.feature
+++ b/features/authentication.feature
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ Feature: OAuth authentication
         halt 400 unless params[:scopes] == ['repo']
         json :token => 'OTOKEN'
       }
-      post('/user/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     When I run `hub create` interactively
     When I type "mislav"
@@ -36,7 +38,9 @@ Feature: OAuth authentication
           {:token => 'OTOKEN', :app => {:url => 'http://defunkt.io/hub/'}}
         ]
       }
-      post('/user/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     When I run `hub create` interactively
     When I type "mislav"
@@ -56,7 +60,9 @@ Feature: OAuth authentication
           {:token => 'OTOKEN', :app => {:url => 'http://defunkt.io/hub/'}}
         ]
       }
-      post('/user/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     Given $GITHUB_USER is "mislav"
     And $GITHUB_PASSWORD is "kitty"
diff --git a/features/create.feature b/features/create.feature
index 960afdfce12019073adc514cacc34085667cfc2a..d0546f0accb510f812bdf53455b9a341c35cf056 100644
--- a/features/create.feature
+++ b/features/create.feature
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Feature: hub create
       """
       post('/user/repos') {
         halt 400 if params[:private]
-        status 200
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
       }
       """
     When I successfully run `hub create`
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Feature: hub create
       """
       post('/user/repos') {
         halt 400 unless params[:private]
-        status 200
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
       }
       """
     When I successfully run `hub create -p`
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ Feature: hub create
   Scenario: HTTPS is preferred
     Given the GitHub API server:
       """
-      post('/user/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     And HTTPS is preferred
     When I successfully run `hub create`
@@ -38,7 +40,9 @@ Feature: hub create
   Scenario: Create in organization
     Given the GitHub API server:
       """
-      post('/orgs/acme/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/orgs/acme/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'acme/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     When I successfully run `hub create acme/dotfiles`
     Then the url for "origin" should be "git@github.com:acme/dotfiles.git"
@@ -59,7 +63,7 @@ Feature: hub create
       """
       post('/user/repos') {
         halt 400 unless params[:name] == 'myconfig'
-        status 200
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/myconfig'
       }
       """
     When I successfully run `hub create myconfig`
@@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ Feature: hub create
       post('/user/repos') {
         halt 400 unless params[:description] == 'mydesc' and
           params[:homepage] == 'http://example.com'
-        status 200
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
       }
       """
     When I successfully run `hub create -d mydesc -h http://example.com`
@@ -86,7 +90,9 @@ Feature: hub create
   Scenario: Origin remote already exists
     Given the GitHub API server:
       """
-      post('/user/repos') { status 200 }
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'mislav/dotfiles'
+      }
       """
     And the "origin" remote has url "git://github.com/mislav/dotfiles.git"
     When I successfully run `hub create`
@@ -100,3 +106,14 @@ Feature: hub create
     When I successfully run `hub create`
     Then the output should contain "mislav/dotfiles already exists on github.com\n"
     And the url for "origin" should be "git@github.com:mislav/dotfiles.git"
+
+  Scenario: API response changes the clone URL
+    Given the GitHub API server:
+      """
+      post('/user/repos') {
+        json :full_name => 'Mooslav/myconfig'
+      }
+      """
+    When I successfully run `hub create`
+    Then the url for "origin" should be "git@github.com:Mooslav/myconfig.git"
+    And the output should contain exactly "created repository: Mooslav/myconfig\n"
diff --git a/lib/hub/commands.rb b/lib/hub/commands.rb
index ab5d6241368d0550fa8c2b63ef54cbb97ae04bf9..dfc51e03174fa08bfcc9b4464803fdb82b812daa 100644
--- a/lib/hub/commands.rb
+++ b/lib/hub/commands.rb
@@ -525,7 +525,10 @@ module Hub
           action = "set remote origin"
         else
           action = "created repository"
-          api_client.create_repo(new_project, options) unless args.noop?
+          unless args.noop?
+            repo_data = api_client.create_repo(new_project, options)
+            new_project = github_project(repo_data['full_name'])
+          end
         end
 
         url = new_project.git_url(:private => true, :https => https_protocol?)
diff --git a/lib/hub/github_api.rb b/lib/hub/github_api.rb
index 32eb3adcb02bc3da87d217eb6febba85ac6e01c7..8c4e1cc61d61a6c67c2d858f6727e22e875ae4a9 100644
--- a/lib/hub/github_api.rb
+++ b/lib/hub/github_api.rb
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ module Hub
         res = post "https://%s/user/repos" % api_host(project.host), params
       end
       res.error! unless res.success?
+      res.data
     end
 
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