Pull & Push to Someone else’s Upstream GitHub PR

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:26:21 +0000

Pull & Push to Someone else’s Upstream GitHub PR

Another brief ‘how to’ for those who need to pull and push to someone else’s upstream GitHub pull request (PR).

I was working on a teammate’s GitHub pull request for Project OCEAN (a current focus of mine) to help close it out. Since her pull request came from her own personal account, there were key commands I needed in order to pull and push directly to it.

SSH Agent Forwarding & Remote Upstream with GitHub & GCE

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 23:13:05 +0000

SSH Agent Forwarding & Remote Upstream with GitHub & GCE

When working with a cloud-based distributed version-control system during software development like GitHub, there are a couple key configurations that will enable you to collaborate on a project and work on a remote server like GCE (Google Compute Engine). You need to provide credentials to push and pull content from GitHub which SSH agent forwarding will help you accomplish. If you are working on a forked GitHub repo (repository) then you will want to setup remote upstream to keep it up to date.

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Pull & Push to Someone else’s Upstream GitHub PR