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# GitHub Tricks - Notes from Aloha Ruby Conf 2012 - Zach Holman
- URL: https://jasontucker.blog/github-tricks-notes-from-aloha-ruby-conf-2012-zach-holman/
- Published: 2012-11-03T10:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-11-03T10:32:41.000Z
- Author: Jason Tucker
- Tags: #wordpress

![](https://jasontucker.blog/content/images/2012/11/gangnamtocat-570x570.png "gangnamtocat")

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foz9yvMkvlA&hd=1&ref=jasontucker.blog)

[http://confreaks.com/videos/1229-aloharuby2012-git-and-github-secrets](http://confreaks.com/videos/1229-aloharuby2012-git-and-github-secrets?ref=jasontucker.blog)

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/](http://octodex.github.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog)
- [git.io](http://git.io/?ref=jasontucker.blog) is a url shortener: gitio <url> <name>
- They have a [mac app](http://mac.github.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog) and a [windows app](http://windows.github.com/?ref=jasontucker.blog).
- Linguist is pretty cool  
  - detection of language
  - syntax highlighting
  - vectored files
  - Open Source at: [http://github.com/github/linguist](http://github.com/github/linguist?ref=jasontucker.blog)
- 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 ](http://git.io/mini?ref=jasontucker.blog) – 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  
  - !\[title\](http://example.com/images.png)
  - 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