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.

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)

Empty Commits / GitHub Talks

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

Git Grep / GitHub Talks

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

Emojis / Compare Branches across Forked Repositories

• :shipit:

• ✨

• 👎

• 👍

• 👏

Task Lists / Task Lists in Markdown Documents

• Earth
  • Moon

• Mars
  • Deimos
  • Phobos

Task Lists / Task Lists in Markdown Documents

• Mercury

• Venus

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.

Stripspace / GitHub Talks

• Strips trailing whitespace

• Collapses newlines

• Adds newline to end of file

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.