A collection of cool hidden and not so hidden features of Git and GitHub. This cheat sheet was inspired by Zach Holman's Git and GitHub Secrets talk at Aloha Ruby Conference 2012 (slides) and his More Git and GitHub Secrets talk at WDCNZ 2013 (slides).
Shortlink: http://git.io/sheet
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- GitHub
- Ignore Whitespace
- Adjust Tab Space
- Commit History by Author
- Cloning a Repository
- Branch
- Gists
- Git.io
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Line Highlighting in Repositories
- Closing Issues via Commit Messages
- Cross-Link Issues
- Locking Conversations
- CI Status on Pull Requests
- Filters
- Syntax Highlighting in Markdown Files
- Emojis
- Images/GIFs
- Quick Quoting
- Pasting Clipboard Image to Comments
- Quick Licensing
- Task Lists
- Relative Links
- Metadata and Plugin Support for GitHub Pages
- Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents
- Rendering Tabular Data
- Rendering PDF
- Revert a Pull Request
- Diffs
- Hub
- Contribution Guidelines
- Octicons
- GitHub Student Developer Pack
- GitHub Resources
- SSH keys
- Git
- Remove All Deleted Files from the Working Tree
- Previous Branch
- Stripspace
- Checking out Pull Requests
- Empty Commits
- Styled Git Status
- Styled Git Log
- Git Query
- Git Grep
- Merged Branches
- Fixup and Autosquash
- Web Server for Browsing Local Repositories
- Git Configurations
- Git Resources
Adding ?w=1 to any diff URL will remove any changes only in whitespace, enabling you to see only that code that has changed.
Read more about GitHub secrets.
Adding ?ts=4 to a diff or file URL will display tab characters as 4 spaces wide instead of the default 8. The number after ts can be adjusted to suit your preference. This does not work on Gists, or raw file views, but a Chrome or Opera extension can automate this.
Here is a Go source file before adding ?ts=4:
...and this is after adding ?ts=4:
To view all commits on a repo by author add ?author={user} to the URL.
https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master?author=dhh
Read more about the differences between commits views.
When cloning a repository the .git can be left off the end.
$ git clone https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheetRead more about the Git clone command.
If you go to the repo's Branches page, next to the Commits button:
https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/branches
... you would see a list of all branches which are not merged into the main branch.
From here you can access the compare page or delete a branch with a click of a button.
To use GitHub to compare branches, change the URL to look like this:
https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/compare/{range}
Where {range} = master...4-1-stable
For example:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master...4-1-stable
{range} can be changed to things like:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master@{1.day.ago}...master
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master@{2014-10-04}...master
Dates are in the format YYYY-MM-DD
Branches can also be compared in diff and patch views:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master...4-1-stable.diff
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master...4-1-stable.patch
Read more about comparing commits across time.
To use GitHub to compare branches across forked repositories, change the URL to look like this:
https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/compare/{foreign-user}:{branch}...{own-branch}
For example:
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/byroot:master...master
Gists are an easy way to work with small bits of code without creating a fully fledged repository.
Add .pibb to the end of any Gist URL (like this) in order to get the HTML only version suitable for embedding in any other site.
Gists can be treated as a repository so they can be cloned like any other:
$ git clone https://gist.github.com/tiimgreen/10545817
This means you also can modify and push updates to Gists:
$ git commit
$ git push
Username for 'https://gist.github.com':
Password for 'https://tiimgreen@gist.github.com':
