Tips and Tricks: Gotta Git Them All

It's the little details that make using Git and GitHub so great, but what are those details and commands that expose you to the best of the platform? Do you know how to close issues from pull requests? How to quickly browse to a file? Do you know how to find the history of a range of lines in a given file?

In this session we'll move you beyond the common workflows you started out learning and using with GitHub, and begin exposing you to well documented commands and features that make you feel like an expert. By the end, you will learn some practical tips and tricks to work faster, easier, and expose you to the last 10% of knowledge to master Git and GitHub.

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1. Tips and Tricks Gotta Git Them All
2. Tips and Tricks Gotta Git Them All
3. ! Brent Beer Solutions Engineer @ GitHub likes coffee; wishes Daft Punk and Justice would do a back-to-back set ! brntbeer
4. ! Jamie Strusz Services Engineer @ GitHub Likes art; travels in a vanagon with dog and boyfriend ! allthedoll
5. The Agenda • Git • Git LFS • GitHub • Gists • Atom
6. Git • Workflow efficiencies • Advance usage • Git LFS
7. git log -L <start>,<end>:FILE
8. git log -L 3,10:commands/command_clone.go
10. git config --global color.ui auto
11. git status -sb
12. Before: After:
15. git grep
16. git grep 'time_t' -- '*.[ch]'
17. git config --global help.autocorrect 10
19. git add -p
20. git merge --no-edit
21. git rebase -i
22. git rebase -i HEAD~5
24. git rebase -i --squash
25. git lfs
26. git lfs
27. git lfs prune
28. git lfs prune -c
29. git config lfs.fetchexclude "media/reallybigfiles"
30. git lfs clone
31. GitHub • Collaboration • Discovery and Speed • Gists
32. svn checkout https:// github.com/github/git-lfs
33. github.com/explore/subscribe
35. Collaborate with forks from contributors
36. Compare ranges: https://github.com/reactiveui/ ReactiveUI/compare/6.4.0.1...6.5.0
38. Patch ranges: https://github.com/atom/atom/ compare/master...1.11-releases.patch
39. Anchors on line numbers
41. references and closing issues/PRs
43. Filter pull requests by status
44. Filter pull requests by status
45. code search
47. Add syntax highlighting to codeblocks in markdown files
49. Keyboard shortcuts
50. Gists as full repos: git clone https://gist.github.com/allthedoll/ 966bebdbc6ed6b78942e6d9b1369c0b3
51. Embedded Gists
52. Atom • Keyboard commands • Packages
53. alt-g
54. cmd-shift-p
59. FIN Brent Beer Solutions Engineer @ GitHub ! brntbeer ! brent@github.com " @brntbeer Jamie Strusz Services Engineer @ GitHub allthedoll ! allthedoll@github.com ! @allthedoll "