Links
- Introducing GitHub Compare View
- Branch Lists
- Closing Issues Across Repositories
- Close issues via commit messages
- Now you can include "fixes user/repo#45" in your commit message, and it will close the referenced issue, provided you have the permission to push to that repository.
- github issue: Parallel Diffs (side-by-side)
- Markdown
- Writing on GitHub
- Covers task lists, references, etc.
- GitHub Flavored
- "Markdown Here" cheatsheet
- Writing on GitHub
- Searching
- KuiKui/Octosplit
- chrome extension for side by side diffs
URL examples
- Compare two commits.
- Activity: https://github.com/chirayuk?tab=activity
- Searching: issues syntax code
- Issues commented by user
- Issues "involving" a user
@involvesis an OR of author, assignee, mentions and commenter.
Cheatsheet
| What | How |
|---|---|
| Show shortcut keys | Key ? |
| File browser | Key t |
| Branch browser | Key w |
| Quick search | Key s |
| Canonical URL | Key y |
| Fork URL | https://github.com/user/repo/fork |
| Autolink sha | sha, user@sha, user/repo@sha |
| Ignore whitespace | Append ?w=1 to any diff URL |
| Filter commits by author | Append ?author=name to the URL |
| Compare trees | http://github.com/user/repo/compare/{range} where range can be like master@{1.day.ago}...master or master@{2012-01-22}...master |