octocat

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*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so

# Packages #

pierrejoubert73

How to add a collapsible section in markdown

1. Example

Click me

Heading

1. Foo
2. Bar
   • Baz

• Qux

Chaser324

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

Integralist

Rules for good testing

Look at the following image...

...it shows an object being tested.

You can't see inside the object. All you can do is send it messages. This is an important point to make because we should be "testing the interface, and NOT the implementation" - doing so will allow us to change the implementation without causing our tests to break.

acamino

Shortcut — Action

• CTRL + A — Move to the beginning of the line
• CTRL + E — Move to the end of the line
• CTRL + [left arrow] — Move one word backward (on some systems this is ALT + B)
• CTRL + [right arrow] — Move one word forward (on some systems this is ALT + F)
• CTRL + U — (bash) Clear the characters on the line before the current cursor position
• CTRL + U —(zsh) If you're using the zsh, this will clear the entire line
• CTRL + K — Clear the characters on the line after the current cursor position
• ESC + [backspace] — Delete the word in front of the cursor

ozh

1. Create new branch:

git checkout -b otherrepo-master master

2. Get the contents of the PR

git pull https://github.com/otherrepo/my-repo-name.git master

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

andreasonny83

# See http://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# compiled output
/dist
/tmp
/out-tsc

# Runtime data
pids
*.pid

mobilemind

# delete local tag '12345'
git tag -d 12345
# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
git push origin :refs/tags/12345
# alternative approach
git push --delete origin tagName
git tag -d tagName

justincbagley

How to convert markdown to PDF:

This post reviews several methods for converting a Markdown (.md) formatted file to PDF, from UNIX or Linux machines.

Using Pandoc:

$ pandoc How_I_got_svg-resizer_working_on_Mac_OSX.md -s -o test1.pdf