GitHub tips that will make your job easier

1. PRODUCTIVITY
TIPS FOR
GITHUB
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oneQUICK FUZZY FILE SEARCH
IN REPOSITORIES
The fastest way to browse a repository when you
know what you’re looking for is by pressing t. It
allows you to search for the name of any file in
the repository, and you can use the arrow keys
on your keyboard to move through the results.

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twoCODE CHANGE SUGGESTIONS
IN PULL REQUESTS
When commenting on a piece of code in a pull
request, you can suggest alternative code and
the author of the pull request will be able to
apply your suggestion instantly without leaving
GitHub.
To make the suggestion, surround a code
snippet with a multiline Markdown snippet, and
with the tag suggestion.

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threeNAVIGATE THE CODE TREE
LIKE IN AN IDE
For doing this you need the Octotree extension
which allows you browse GitHub repositories
with a sidebar tree view similar to what you get
in applications like VS Code.

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fourVIEWING THE BLAME AND
CHANGE RECENCY HEATMAP
When viewing a file, you can press b to view the
Git blame and a heatmap showing how recently
each line was changed.
It’ll tell you who most recently changed each line
of code, and give you a clickable link taking you
to the full commit the change was part of.

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fivePOWERFUL CODE SEARCH
Press / to search all the code in a repository.
If your search contains multiple words and you
want to search for occurrences of your specific
search query, put the quotations around the
query.

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sixCREATING A PERMALINK TO
A FILE
When viewing a file or directory, press y, and
the URL will be converted to a permalink, which
you can share knowing that the contents of the
file will never change.

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sevenMAGIC MARKDOWN TABLES
Table-magic is a lifesaver for building and
maintaining complex tables in Markdown. This
open source tool allows you to easily and quickly
convert between several table formats including
CSV, TSV, Markdown, SQL and HTML.

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