Being more efficient on GitHub

Re:Being more efficient on GitHub by thundergolfer on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:55AM (#21729398)

Here’s a 4th step:

Be quite liberal with your cross-referencing of issues, pull requests, commits, comments in Github’s UI.

GitHub will prominently display these reference breadcrumb whenever you’re navigating around. When I found myself in an obscure Github issue tracking down a problem, it was _awesome_ to see a reference made 6 months ago by a colleague in a different team.

Now that I’ve left plenty of references in my own little corner of Github, I’ve made my own life easier too.

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Re:Being more efficient on GitHub by thethirdone on Saturday December 07, 2019 @05:34AM (#21729523)

This has been very helpful when working on my own projects. I find issue to be a great way to add context to commits.

If a commit solves part of an ongoing problem, referencing it helps clue yourself in on why you made the change you did when you git blame yourself.

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