Update: It’s now possible to set a working-directory default for a job. See this answer. There is an option to set a working-directory on a step, but not for multiple steps or a whole job. I’m fairly sure this option only works for script steps, not action steps with uses. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstepsrun Using working-directory, your workflow … Read more
Clicking the number of forks shows you the full network. From there you can click “members” to see who forked the repo. Example for ExpressJS: https://github.com/expressjs/express/network/members.
It is nicely demonstrated in the Table of Contents of the Markdown Cheatsheet. ##### Table of Contents [Headers](#headers) [Emphasis](#emphasis) …snip… <a name=”headers”/> ## Headers If you hover over a Header in a GitHub Markdown file, you’ll see a little link sample to the left of it, you can also use that link. The format for … Read more
In a recent update you can now put if conditionals at job level. See the documentation here. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idif I tested this workflow which runs the job test on every push, but only runs deploy on the master branch. name: my workflow on: push jobs: test: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: – name: Execute tests run: exit 0 … Read more
Append .wiki.git to the repository name. That is, if your repository name was foobar: git clone git@github.com:myusername/foobar.git would be the path to clone your repository and git clone git@github.com:myusername/foobar.wiki.git would be the path to clone its wiki. Note: You must have at least one page to be able to clone the wiki repo. (via @tobiasz-cudnik)
Github has very simple rights/privileges (and even simpler management for them). If you are not a collaborator of a repo, then (in regards to issues) you can open issues you can comment on all existing issues (open or closed) you can close your own issues you can re-open your own issues if you closed them … Read more
A few years late, but I just implemented a simple redirect to support https://github.com/USER/PROJECT/releases/latest/download/package.zip. That should redirected to the latest tagged package.zip release asset. Hope it’s handy!
Update 2019: Ustin’s answer points to: API /repos/:owner/:repo/traffic/clones, to get the total number of clones and breakdown per day or week, but: only for the last 14 days. API /repos/:owner/:repo/releases/:release_id for getting downloads number of your assets (files attached to the release), field download_count mentioned below, but, as commented, only for the most recent 30 … Read more
Does the search user.rb in:path do what you want to do? Alternatively there is also this search filename:user.rb Found on: https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/
Github’s markdown supports diff when formatting code. For example: “`diff public class Hello1 { public static void Main() { – System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”); + System.Console.WriteLine(“Rock all night long!”); } } “` Output: and it should give you the Diff looks you are looking for, highlighting in red what has been removed and in green what has … Read more