GitHub Tricks - Notes from Aloha Ruby Conf 2012 - Zach Holman

I didn’t attend the Aloha Ruby Conf but I did get to see a great video on some tips and tricks on using GitHub and Git.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foz9yvMkvlA&hd=1

http://confreaks.com/videos/1229-aloharuby2012-git-and-github-secrets

Instead of you having to watch the video I took some notes for us all, enjoy!

• Add .diff or .patch to any Compare View, Pull Request or Commit Page.
• Remove whitespace by adding ?w=1 to any diff URL to truncate whitespace
• Git repo on GitHub is also a svn repository
  • svn checkout guthub.com/holman/boom
• HTTP & SSH, HTTP is now the default vs SSH being the default.
  • git push origin master  – asks for your password
  • if you click ssh it will save your selection forever.
• You can clone without the .git at the end, works fine.
  git clone https://github.com/holman/boom.git
  git clone https://github.com/holman/boom
• GitHub HD’s icon set is SUPER-ZOOMABLE (retina graphics)
• Security  http://github.com/settings/security
  • Public Keys listed
  • Repositories listed
• Octocat started as an istockphotos image now they own the rights to it and dress it up funny 🙂
  • Dozens of octocats!!  – http://octodex.github.com/
• git.io is a url shortener:   gitio <url> <name>
• They have a mac app and a windows app.
• Linguist is pretty cool
  • detection of language
  • syntax highlighting
  • vectored files
  • Open Source at: http://github.com/github/linguist
• Reply to any email and it gets added to issue comments
• Abusing Gist – github:gist
  • using gist for css
  • gists are full repos: public clone url:  git://gist.github.com/2720312.git
  • http://git.io/mini  – quick disposable projects
  • Image View Modes – compare image versions and swipe between versions.
• Command Line GitHub
  • brew install hub
  • fancy cloning:  hub clone holman/boom
  • multi-remote pushes:  hub push origin,staging
  • attach a pull request to an issue: hub pull-request -i <ISSUE>
  • aliasing:  alias git=hub
  • http://www.github.com/defunkt/hub
• 404 error pages has accelerometer support 🙂
• keyboard shortcuts
  • T – keyboard finder  (like command t in textmate)
  • W – branch selector
  • S – quick search
  • ? – all commands listed
• Subscribe people to an issue
  • /cc @username @username @username
    • mentioned users get subscribed to all subsiquent issues
  • @ORG/TEAM will mention a team directly
  • mention SHA they autolink
  • autolinked cross-repo shaws  USER@sha1 USER/REPO@SHA1
    • #19292  to autolink to an issue
    • USER/REPO#19292
• Fenced code highlighting in readmes
  • ` ` ` php   (three backticks no spaces in between then the language you want to use) this specifies a language inline for this block.
  •  close it with ` ` `   (three backticks no spaces in between)
• Auto-closing an issue
  • use anything like closes, closed or even close #92827
  • fixes fixed fix #82847  works too
• Commits by author
  • http://github.com/play/play/commits.master
  • http://github.com/play/play/commits.master?author=holman
  • http://github.com/play/play/commits.master?author=zach@holman.com
• Pulls needn’t be from a fork
  • branch to branch pull requests
• Pull requests use screenshots
  • 
  • all images are cached.
• Convert issues to pull requests
  • POST /repos/:user/:repo/pulls
• emoji
  • :emoj:
  • examples:   :shipit: :+1: :-1:  :heard: :fire: :rage2: :shit:
  • http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com
• Line linking
  • select a range by adding a – and the ending number in the url:   #L16-25
• Advanced compare view
  • http://www.github.com/user/repo/compare/{range}
  • {range} mater…branch
  • MASTER@{1.day.ago}…MASTER
  • MASTER@{yesterday}…MASTER
  • MASTER@{2012-02-25}…MASTER