reflections on delivery 03-2023

[Sparrow0hawk]

Quick page for reviewing todays session that used gh cli for GitHub authentication installed via conda.

[Sparrow0hawk]

I used conda-installed git-bash for the workshop, previously this has been to ensure the use of the same bash commands across platforms. Whether this is necessary with newer versions of anaconda prompt including standard bash commands is a good question

[Sparrow0hawk]

git-bash 2.22.0 from conda doesn't play well with gh CLI. Have to use winpty to get commands to work.

[Sparrow0hawk]

Some users got in a pickle trying to use gh after using conda-installed git bash where git wasn't available in PATH. This seemed to be to do with how users were starting git-bash. Starting git-bash from within anaconda prompt (where you'd also installed gh) seemed to solve this.

[Sparrow0hawk]

Going forward i'd recommend setting SSH when using gh auth login, it handles creating the key, adding it to ~/.ssh and uploading the key to GitHub. Obviously need to advise users on passphrase setting