It is not possible to sort by stars when searching inside code. From an e-mail from github.com support: Code search does not support sorting by number of stars, but I will definitely add your +1 to that suggestion internally! I can’t say if or when a change will happen, but your feedback is in the … Read more
Update Nov. 2020: you now have “Custom notification controls” This week we are giving you more control over the types of content that you are notified about on GitHub: Watching a repository can often be a double-edged sword. You want to stay up to date with a project, but if you have a specific interest … Read more
I am not aware of any way to do this directly in GitHub. The “latest release” is determined from the timestamps on your tags, not from the semantics of their names. In the past I have solved this problem on my own personal projects by deleting the problematic older tag: git tag -d v0.1.0 git … Read more
To my knowledge, you can only do this if they grant you permission. In the past this was only possible by them adding you as a contributor on their fork, however, in September 2016, GitHub added a feature for exactly this use case, allowing the person requesting the Pull Request to give permission to the … Read more
AFAIK, no, but you can link to a certain revision of the file, and thus, you can know for sure that line will always point at the start of the function. The URL looks like /{user}/{repo}/blob/{hash}/{file}#L{line} To get it, click “Commits”, select the last commit, click “Browse code”, and find your file and line as … Read more
First of all, note that Gist doesn’t support directories. To import a repository into a gist follow the next steps: Create a new gist and clone it locally (replace the dummy id with your Gist id): git clone [email protected]:792bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx9.git cd to that gist directory Pull and merge from your GitHub repository: git pull [email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git Push … Read more
Clean and Smudge You can use clean and smudge to compress your file. Normally, this isn’t necessary, since git will compress it internally, but since gitHub is acting weird, it may help. The main commands would be like: git config filter.compress.clean gzip git config filter.compress.smudge gzip -d GitHub will see this as a compressed file, … Read more
is there a way to pull files out of a branch including their commit history into a new branch? You pull a commit, meaning a whole repo into a branch, not just some files. One good option would then be to reset the files you don’t want to their content pre-branch –x–x–x (master) \ y–y–y … Read more
In your case, I would suggest going with submodules. However to answer your exact question, here’s how you should proceed. Start by creating Jeremy/MyShooter and Jeremy/MyRPG on Github. Keep them empty. Clone your origin project on your system, twice, giving it different names $ git clone http://github.com/Bob/CoolFramework MyShooter $ git clone http://github.com/Bob/CoolFramework MyRPG You now … Read more
I just come across this issue right now, it is caused by permissions, please make sure that you current account has the permissions of git pull and git push，in your case , maybe you create a private repository in Github, and not add this account as Manage Collaborators, then the issue come. Certainly you also … Read more