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Feb 02, 2020

Keyboard Shortcuts / Compare Branches across Forked Repositories

• Pressing s will focus the search field for the current repository. Pressing ↓ to select the “All GitHub” option changes the field to search all of GitHub.

Sep 08, 2016

Keyboard Shortcuts / Compare Branches across Forked Repositories

• Pressing y when looking at a file (e.g., https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet/blob/master/README.md) will change your URL to one which, in effect, freezes the page you are looking at. If this code changes, you will still be able to see what you saw at that current time.

Git Grep / GitHub Talks

• -e The next parameter is the pattern (e.g., regex)

Feb 07, 2016

Empty Commits / GitHub Talks

• The first commit of a repository: git commit -m "Initial commit" --allow-empty.

Jun 03, 2015

Git Grep / GitHub Talks

• --and, --or and --not Combine multiple patterns.

Jan 21, 2015

Emojis / Compare Branches across Forked Repositories

• :shipit:

• ✨

• 👎

• 👍

• 👏

May 18, 2014

Task Lists / Task Lists in Markdown Documents

• Earth
  • Moon

• Mars
  • Deimos
  • Phobos

Apr 28, 2014

Task Lists / Task Lists in Markdown Documents

• Mercury

• Venus

Apr 16, 2014

Stripspace / GitHub Talks

• Strips trailing whitespace

• Collapses newlines

• Adds newline to end of file

Apr 14, 2014

Keyboard Shortcuts / Compare Branches across Forked Repositories

• Pressing t will bring up a file explorer.

• Pressing w will bring up the branch selector.

• Pressing l will edit labels on existing Issues.

Empty Commits / GitHub Talks

• Annotating the start of a new bulk of work or a new feature.

• Documenting when you make changes to the project that aren't code related.

• Communicating with people using your repository.