Tips for being productive on GitHub

I spend much of my day interacting with GitHub in one form or another as part of my day job, even though I’m not working at Automattic as a software developer. Between coding little scripts to make me more efficient, and managing or contributing to work-related projects, I use GitHub daily.

This is why I enjoyed Darren Burns’ post titled “8 Productivity Tips for GitHub” that he published on his blog, and on Dev.

GitHub is built with some extremely helpful shortcuts and productivity-boosting features. From personal experience, however, it’s clear that these often fall under the radar amongst developers. If I’ve ever witnessed a specific GitHub feature surprise or assist someone, then that feature is on this page. That said, what follows is by no means an exhaustive list.

Darren Burn

If you’re also a bit of a productivity geek, and spend time in GitHub, you may find some useful tips here.