Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab

Posts in this series

1. Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’
2. Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab
3. Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab
4. Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab
5. Test-Lab | Update-GitHub

In the last post we got the posh-git installed, Now we are going to fork the Powershell.org DSC tools development branch and clone that locally.

I already have an account with GitHub, You will need one to be able to contribute.

I had over the the repository and click the fork button

with that done next is to get a copy of the clone URL.

I create a folder to store the repository in

C:\> mkdir github
    Directory: C:\
Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name                                                                                                              
----                -------------     ------ ----                                                                                                              
d----          5/1/2015   5:25 PM            github                                                                                                            

C:\> cd github
C:\github> 

now i have everything I need to make a clone.

C:\github> git clone https://github.com/BladeFireLight/DSC.git PshOrgDSC --branch development
git : Cloning into 'PshOrgDSC'...
At line:1 char:1
+ git clone https://github.com/BladeFireLight/DSC.git PshOrgDSC --branch developme ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (Cloning into 'PshOrgDSC'...:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
 

C:\github> cd .\PshOrgDSC

C:\github\PshOrgDSC [development]> dir

    Directory: C:\github\PshOrgDSC

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name                                                                                                              
----                -------------     ------ ----                                                                                                              
d----          5/1/2015   5:38 PM            Tooling                                                                                                           
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM        605 .gitattributes                                                                                                    
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM        366 .gitignore                                                                                                        
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM       1099 LICENSE.txt                                                                                                       
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM       1231 README.md                                                                                                         
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM       7305 README.old.md                                                                                                     

C:\github\PshOrgDSC [development]> 

I’m not sure why PowerShell thought it was an error but the clone worked.

Next up will be getting the example config to build.

C:\github\PshOrgDSC [development]> cd .\Tooling\Examples

C:\github\PshOrgDSC\Tooling\Examples [development]> dir

    Directory: C:\github\PshOrgDSC\Tooling\Examples

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name                                                                                                              
----                -------------     ------ ----                                                                                                              
d----          5/1/2015   5:38 PM            DSC_Configuration                                                                                                 
d----          5/1/2015   5:38 PM            SampleConfiguration                                                                                               
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM       1770 README.md                                                                                                         
-a---          5/1/2015   5:38 PM       1203 SampleBuild.ps1