Github Desktop To VsCode

Description:

I followed these steps to delete Github Desktop and just use VSCode for pushing to different repos.

To Resolve:

1. In VSCode, set global options. I set my work email since most of my repos are set to go to their local Gitlab instance

   git config --global user.email "myemail@domain.com"
   git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
   git config --global core.autocrlf true 
   

2. Uninstall any references to external programs
   • Uninstall Git Desktop (Run => appwiz.cpl => Remove Github Desktop)
   • Uninstall Credentials Manager:
     • cd "C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core"
     • git-credential-manager.exe uninstall
   • Reset credentials helper to use wincred
     • git config --global credential.helper wincred

3. Used VS Code to Push some changes and re-input credentials. Usually something along the lines of:

   git remote add origin https://github.com/gerryw1389/gerryw1389.github.io
   git push --set-upstream origin master
   git add --all 
   git commit -m 'example'
   git pull
   git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master
   git push
   

4. Repos: Since I have 4 different repos all in different folders, what I did was go to each repo and:

   • Run git config -l and look for the correct origin.
     • If it is wrong, type git remote rm origin and git remote add origin https://path/to/repository then confirm git remote get-url --all origin

   • Run git config --local user.name "Gerry Williams" and git config --local user.email "myemail@gmail.com". This is so that my personal email can be attached to Github repos while other repos will still get my work email by default.

   • Lastly for each repo I would create a test file and do a push and look for/resolve any errors. For example:

   touch myfile.txt
   git add .
   git commit -m 'testing vscode'
   git push origin
   

   • Sometime I would get

   error: the current branch master has no upstream branch
   

   • fix: git push --set-upstream origin master

   • You might then get

   fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
   

   • fix: git push origin master --force