Update a Severely Out of Date GitHub Repository Fork

Recently, I received notification from Planet PowerShell that they will be removing blogs that do not support HTTPS as of August 1st. I had forked their repo on GitHub over a year ago, added my blog, and submitted a pull request. I hadn’t touched my fork of their repo since then. It was severely out of date and in an unknown state. Taking a look at it on my system showed my local copy only had one remote which was my fork on GitHub....

June 28, 2018 · 3 min · 429 words · Mike F. Robbins

Git status doesn’t know if your local repository is out of date

To setup the scenario that will be demonstrated in this blog article, a new commit has been pushed to the dev branch of my PowerShell repository on GitHub from a computer named PC01. Then I switched over to using to an alternate computer named PC02 that was up to date prior to that latest commit being pushed to GitHub from PC01. This means that the dev branch of the PowerShell repository on PC02 is one commit behind the remote origin on GitHub....

February 18, 2016 · 5 min · 989 words · Mike F. Robbins

Configuring the PowerShell ISE for use with Git and GitHub

The goal of this blog article is to configure the PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) so the management of Git version control can be performed from it. Most tutorials you’ll find will attempt to lead you down the path of using SSH instead of HTTPS to synchronize your repositories to GitHub from the command-line but that’s really over-complicated and unnecessary if you’re using a Windows based machine. The client machine used in this blog article runs the 64 bit version of Windows 10 Enterprise Edition....

February 9, 2016 · 9 min · 1728 words · Mike F. Robbins