Downloaded new skill and cannot push dev - alexa

I created a new skill in the web-based interface. Then I used the skills extension in vscode to download the new skill. After downloading I have the interactionModel as an untracked file in the dev branch. I committed that and some other files and tried to push it to get things synced up and it failed, saying to do a pull first. I do the pull succesfully and then try the push again and get the same error. What can I do to sync things?
EDIT: I tried pushing from a shell and got "get: .ask\scripts\git-credential-helper: not found". So I couldn't log in to the amazon repo. Could this be causing the problem above? How do I get my credentials for the remote repo? I assumed that would be set up automatically from the alexa-skill extension in vscode when I downloaded the skill.

I found the answer to my problem here
The commands I used were ...
git checkout dev
git pull --rebase
git merge master
# fix any merge conflict if you have any
git push --no-verify

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Background :
I have created a new react-native app using react-native init. Now I want to push this new repo to GitHub/GitLab with an initial commit message where I am facing the issue.
Issue:
While trying to push the project on the master branch of an empty repo I am getting a broken pipe error.
I am working on multiple projects and pushing the commits over ssh in different repositories on both Github and GitLab. There is no issue with old projects. Only when I create a new react-native app and try to push that in a new repo I am facing this issue. Can someone help me with this and tell me why this error is coming?
This issue was happened due to firewall software installed in the system. So if you are facing a similar kind of issue I am listing some of the things that might help:-
Check for any firewall software installed in the system.
Check for your internet connection.
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Why are terminal commands 'git add .', git commit...' and 'git push...' listed as optional when deploying React project?

Apologies, I am still a bit confused by git, although I am trying to teach myself more and improve.
I recently successfully deployed a React website to GitHub pages, following the often recommended steps of installing gh-pages to the project, adding a homepage property to the package.json file, adding scripts to the scripts properties on the package.json file, running 'npm run deploy' and so on. It worked fine, and now a build of the project has been added to my repository (here), and I can view the actual project online (here).
However, the issue I have is this: most guides on deploying a react app also mention the following steps:
in the terminal type:
git add .
git commit -m "commit"
git push origin master
These final steps are often listed as optional. Everything worked fine without me doing these steps: my code was added to the repository, and my website is deployed online, so what do these steps do exactly? Why are they considered optional? What is best practice?
These commands are not optional to me - when using only the command-line Git client, these commands accomplish the interaction of pushing the code (that, after you edit it, only exists locally on your own PC) to the Git repository server.
Everything worked fine without me doing these steps: my code was added to the repository, and my website is deployed online
I can see the following possibilities:
You are using another Git client and the push was done there;
You are using a Git tool (e.g. editing purely on the GitHub website), where the push happened without you being aware of it;
You did the terminal commands, without being aware of them;
A common resource to learn more about Git would be the Git book on the official Git SCM website: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

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I built a simple ReactJs app and tried using Google Cloud Build to deploy it as soon as I push a new commit to the master branch on Github.
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I cannot get my server code to update. I'm running a PHP instance on GAE and no matter what I do, the files won't update. In the source code view, I can see the files have updated, but when I attempt to access the updated file, I'm still viewing the old version. I've also attempted disconnecting my Bitbucket repo and using the appcfg.py update project-name command, but the files aren't refreshing when I attempt to access them. I'm not sure what to do to force the changes to take place.
My app.yaml contains the following code
- url: /(.+\.php)$
script: \1
secure: always
So the files should be getting read, right?
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To use the feature of push to deploy you need to spin-up the Jenkins
Instance on GCE (Google Compute Engine) and then it will take the
updated code and execute it in the environment. Go through [1] for how
to enable the Jenkins instance and its configuration according to
different run time.
In your issue, you just mirrored the code from Bit Bucket to Cloud
Repository, as it is just doing the version control for the
application not executing the application. So basically you have have
the option of using Jenkins instance as I described above to test the
different version of the code or using the appcfg.py update command
from your local repository.
I haven't attempted to install and use Jenkins since I fixed it after disconnecting my Bitbucket account), but it may help others who have run into this problem.

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I have been trying out Codeship and Heroku for continuous deployment of an AngularJS application I writing at the moment. The app was created using Yeoman and uses bower and grunt. Initially I thought this seemed like a really good setup as Codeship was free to use and I was quickly able to configure this to build my AngularJS project and it offered the ability to add a deployment step after the build. There were even many PaaS providers to choose from (Heroku, S3, Google App Engine etc). However I seem to have become a bit stuck with getting the app to run on Heroku.
The problem started from the fact that all the documentation suggested that I remove the /dist path from my .gitignore so that this directory is published to Heroku post build. This was mainly from documentation that talked about publishing to Heroku from a local machine, but I figure this is all Codeship is doing under the hood anyway. I didn't want to do this as I don't believe I should be checking build output into source control. The /dist folder was added to .gitignore for a good reason. Furthermore, this kind of defeats the point of having a CI server somewhat, as I might as well just push the latest build from my machine.
After some more digging around I found out that I could add a postinstall step to my packages.json file such as bower install && grunt build which would re-run the build on Heroku and hence repopulate all the bower dependencies (something else they wanted me to check in to source control!) and the dist directory.
After giving this a try it became apparent that I would need to add bower and grunt as dependencies in packages.json, which meant moving them from devDependencies which is where they should belong!
So I now seem to be stuck. All I want to do is publish my build artefacts (/dist) the dependencies (/bower_components) and the server.js file that will run the site. Does anyone know how to achieve this with Heroku and Codeship? Alternatively has anyone had any success with this using different tools. I am looking for something that is free and I am willing to accept that it will not be production stable (won't scale to multiple servers etc), but this is fine for now as all I want to do is continuously deploy the app for internal testing and to be able to share the output with non-technical members of my team so we can discuss features we'd like to prioritise etc.
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Thanks
Ahoy, Marko from the Codeship crew here. Did you already send us an in app message about this? I'm sure we can get your application building on Codeship and deploying to Heroku successfully.
As a very short answer, the easiest way to get this running would be to add both bower and grunt to your dependencies in the package.json. Another possibility would be to look for a custom buildpack with both tools already installed.
And finally you could also run the tools on Codeship, add the newly installed files to the repository, commit the changes and push this new commit to Heroku. If you want to use this, you'd very probably need to force push the changes though.
Feel free to reach out to me via the in app messenger (lower right corner of the site) and I'd be happy to help you get this working!
I found two ways to get this to work.
Heroku Node Custom Buildpack
Use the mbuchetics Heroku build pack. This works by basically re-building the app once it has been pushed to Heroku.
There were a few tricks I had to employ still to make this work. In Gruntfile.jstwo new tasks needed to be configured called heroku:production and heroku:development. This is what the buildpack executes to build the app. I initially just aliased the main build task, but found that the either the buildpack or Heroku had a problem with running jshint so in the end I copied the build task and took out the parts that I didn't need.
Also in packages.json I had to add this:
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "bower cache clean && bower install"
}
This made sure the bower_components were available in Heroku.
Pros
This allowed me to keep the .gitignore file in tact so that the 'binaries' in the dist directory and the dependencies in the bower_components directory were not committed into source control.
Cons
This is basically re-building the app once it is on Heroku and I generally prefer to use the same 'binaries' throughout the entire build and deployment pipeline. That way I know that the same code that was built, is the same code that was tested and is the same code that was deployed.
It also slows down the deployment as you have to wait for the app to build twice.
CodeShip Custom Script Deployment
Not being satisfied with the fact I was building my app twice, I tried using a Custom Script pipeline in CodeShip instead of the pre-existing Heroku one. The script basically modified the .gitignore file to allow the dist folder to be committed and then pushed to the Heroku remote (which leaves the code on the origin remote unaffected by the change).
I ended up with the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
gitRemoteName="heroku_$APP_NAME"
gitRemoteUrl="git#heroku.com:$APP_NAME.git"
# Configure git remote
git config --global user.email "you-email#example.com"
git config --global user.name "Build"
git remote add $gitRemoteName $gitRemoteUrl
# Allow dist to be pushed to heroku remote repo
echo '!dist' >> .gitignore
# Also make sure any other exclusions dont apply to that directory
echo '!dist/*' >> .gitignore
# Commit build output
git add -A .
herokuCommitMessage="Build $CI_BUILD_NUMBER for branch $CI_BRANCH. Commited by $CI_COMMITTER_NAME. Commit hash $CI_COMMIT_ID"
echo $herokuCommitMessage
git commit -m "$herokuCommitMessage"
# Must merge the last build in Heroku remote, but always chose new files in merge
git fetch $gitRemoteName
git merge "$gitRemoteName/master" -X ours -m "Merge last build and overwrite with new build"
# Branch is in detached mode so must reference the commit hash to push
git push $gitRemoteName $(git rev-parse HEAD):refs/heads/master
Pros
This only require a single build of the app and deploys the same binaries that were tested during the test phase.
Cons
I've used this script quite a few times now and it seems relatively stable. However one issue I know of is that when a new pipeline is created there will be no code on the master branch so this script fails when it tries to do the merge from the heroku remote. At the moment I get around this by doing an initial push of the master branch to Heroku before kicking off a build, but I imagine there is probably a better Git command I could run along the lines of; 'only merge this branch if it already exists'.

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