There’s a way to access this information through the GitHub API. Syntax: GET /repos/:user/:repo Example: https://api.github.com/repos/git/git When retrieving information about a repository, a property named size is valued with the size of the whole repository (including all of its history), in kilobytes. For instance, the Git repository weights around 124 MB. The size property of … Read more
From August 13, 2021, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system. Create Personal Access Token on GitHub From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings … Read more
Generate a new token from GitHub’s developer settings Update the remote URL: git remote set-url origin https://<token>@github.com/<Git_URL> Pull once: git pull https://<token>@<Git_URL>.git And you are good to go.
I am assuming Basic authentication here. $cred = Get-Credential Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ‘https://whatever’ -Credential $cred You can get your credential through other means (Import-Clixml, etc.), but it does have to be a [PSCredential] object. Edit based on comments: GitHub is breaking RFC as they explain in the link you provided: The API supports Basic Authentication as … Read more
Support for password authentication was removed. Please use a personal access token instead