If you are within the context of a CI/CD tool, you may run into the scenario where a newly applied git tag has initiated a pipeline action. Depending on the tool, the pipeline will provide you with either a SHA of the last commit and/or the tag name – but not the branch where the … Git: find branch name of newly applied tag
Github Actions provide the ability to define a build workflow directly in Github. The workflow steps are defined as yaml and can be triggered by various events, including a code push, branch, or tagging in the repository. In this article I will detail the steps of creating a simple Spring Boot web application that when … Github: automated Github release for Spring Boot jar using Github Actions
Github Actions provide the ability to define a build workflow directly in Github. The workflow steps are defined as yaml and can be triggered by various events, including a code push, branch, or tagging in the repository. In this article I will detail the steps of creating a simple Spring Boot web application that when … Github: automated build and publish of containerized Spring Boot app using GitHub Actions
The GitHub “Release” page for a repository can provide your consumers a convenient way to download a binary version of your software as well as track the latest changes and enhancements. In this article, I will show how to invoke a local release process for a Go language binary. A new Github release will be … Github: locally invoked release process for a Go binary
Github allows users or systems to access their API via OAuth2. Although this mechanism is often used on the public internet for authentication of users into a 3rd party site, note that OIDC is not implemented. In this article, I will show how to use the Spotify Dashboard to configure an Application that can support … OAuth2: Configuring Github for OAuth2
GitHub has a CLI tool that allows you to perform many of the operations you may currently perform in the web UI. Among its many uses, the ‘gh‘ utility will allow you to fork repositories, modify issues, merge PR, and create releases all from the console for ease of use or automation. Below I will … GitHub: CLI tool for repository operations
GitHub has a feature that allows other members to follow your account and receive alerts on actions you take in any repository. Unfortunately, there is not a setting that allows you to disable this at a global level. The only workaround is to temporarily block the user, which removes the relationship. This can be done … GitHub: removing followers with the GitHub api
By default, if an SSH key file is dropped into your personal ‘~/.ssh’ directory that matches a set of standard names, then it will automatically be used as an identity when logging into a remote site (id_rsa, id_dsa, id_ecsda, id_ed25519, or identity). For example, this makes it simple to comply with Github’s requirement to use … Ubuntu: loading a key into ssh-agent at login with a user-level systemd service
It is not uncommon to find an installation page where you are asked to download a packaged release from the github site. But even if you are using the “latest” alias to grab the most recent, you may still need to know the exact release tag for unzipping, configuration management, etc. Luckily, a simple query … Bash: Determining latest github release tag and version
Getting a local project into a public repository on GitHub only takes a few steps. This is well documented on a GitHub help page. In this article, I’ll go through getting a local project called “myproject1” into a public GitHub repository.