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Hacktoberfest 2020 - completed!

Hacktoberfest 2020

Another year, another Hacktoberfest, another haphazard participation and – as usual – another blog post a little bit late. Still, better late than never, and the event has become such a phenomenon I’m happy I did finish the challenge (or like DigitalOcean calls it – the celebration)! The event has a special place in my heart, as it did (in 2017, I think?) encourage me to contribute more to the community – not only by maintaining this blog but also by occasionally submitting a Pull…Continue reading Hacktoberfest 2020

Version Control problems

How to resolve “refusing to allow an integration to create or update .github/workflows/main.yml” on GitHub Desktop?

Ran into this one when trying to push my merge from upstream. I was adhering to my own instructions (see below for a link), but got the error (further below) that stopped me from using GitHub Desktop to push (sync) at all. Posts Related to “How to resolve “refusing to allow an integration to create or update .github/workflows/main.yml” on GitHub Desktop?”:Sync local repo with the original on GitHub (Git merge upstream)How to list your git stashes?Hacktoberfest 2020

GitHub Desktop version information

Sync local repo with the original on GitHub (Git merge upstream)

This is one of those “note to self” -kind of entries. This workflow is probably so natural to a lot of you all, that you won’t need to ever google it – but since I don’t do that much development with the full “fork – clone – branch – submit pull request” -process (whihc is really typical with GitHub and I guess Open Source in general), I always need to look up the instructions on how to add pull any changes from the original repository…Continue reading Sync local repo with the original on GitHub (Git merge upstream)