Many developers breathe GitHub. And that’s great. It’s the software that helps us (developers) to build great software. Here are 10 helpful GitHub hacks you probably don’t know. Basically, GitHub projects can be made public and every publicly shared code is freely readable. You can have private projects as well, however they require a paid GitHub plan. Public repositories on GitHub are often used to share open source software. Check out all GitHub tricks here: http://usersnap.com/blog/github-hacks-productivity/

1. 10+ HELPFUL
@tompeham I @usersnap
TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY
GITHUB HACKS

2. HELLO EVERYONE!
MY NAME IS
THOMAS.

3. I GUESS YOU’RE FAMILIAR
WITH GITHUB, RIGHT?

4. THAT IS GITHUB

5. GitHub for developers?
Many developers breathe GitHub.
And that’s great.
It’s the software that helps us (developers)
build great software.

6. 10+ HELPFUL GITHUB HACKS

7. FULL LIST OF GITHUB
HACKS
Can be found here: http://goo.gl/GYVWw2

8. 1. CLONE LIKE HELL

9. Clone and learn.
• GitHub offers a great amount of free,
public projects and code snippets.
• You can use all that code. For free.
• Clone projects + download code = learn
about coding practices.

10. 2. WHO TO FOLLOW?

11. Who to follow on GitHub?
• GitHub is the largest developer community
in the world.
• Follow interesting people and gather
inspiration.
• Here’s how.

12. Who to follow on GitHub?
• Assuming that people who have a huge
follower base on GitHub are worth to
follow:

13. Who to follow on GitHub?
• Search for people with more than 1.000
followers.
• Here’s the search query:
https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=followers%3A%3E10
00&ref=searchresults&s=followers&type=Users

14. Who to follow on GitHub?
• Search for repositories which have been
starred a great number of times:
• https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=stars%3A
%3E1000&ref=searchresults&s=stars&type=Rep
ositories

15. 3. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

16. Keyboard shortcuts
• Why not use shortcuts on GitHub?
• Press “?” on any GitHub page and you’ll get a
list of shortcuts available.

17. Keyboard shortcuts

18. 4. COMMIT EARLY AND OFTEN

19. Keyboard shortcuts
• Commits are updates to a project which
refers to changes in one or more files
• very completed task should therefore result in a
commit on GitHub

20. 5. TRACE CHANGES IN A FILE
WITH GIT BLAME

21. Trace changes with git blame
• git blame is pretty cool. It’s an super easy
way to display changes of any file.

22. 6. SEND LINE LINKS

23. Send line links
• Did you know that you share links to a
certain code line (or multiple lines)?
• Simply select the line in the code view and
you’ll see how the URL will change. You
can even select multiple lines by pressing
“SHIFT”.

24. THERE’S WAY MORE…

25. CHECK OUT FULL LIST OF GITHUB
HACKS
http://goo.gl/GYVWw2

26. QUESTIONS?
PING ME ON TWITTER @TOMPEHAM

27. THOMAS PEHAM
@tompeham
tp@usersnap.com
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28. ONE LAST THING…
JUST PING US ON TWITTER.