GitHub

• See character-length
  • Learn more about GitHub UI limitations
• See git

Notifications

Important to configure this when joining a company

• Add your "other" email to GitHub emails
  • https://github.com/settings/emails
• Notifications
  • https://github.com/settings/notifications
    • Automatic watching: disable
    • Automatically watch repositories
    • Change notification custom routing to your "other" email

GitHub Pros

• Searching https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/

GitHub Cons

• On the "Pull Requests" page, it doesn't show size of pull requests
  • Makes it easier to quickly gauge which PRs to review
• Pull Requests
  • Code comments don't span multiple lines
  • You cannot comment on files outside modified lines (within a window), this is useful for pointing out other errors in the file.
  • Commit Message is not prefilled with 1st comment. You can have Pull Request Templates, but it's not the same. That is a "post" event. we should be able to edit the message before merging.
  • Styling. The Headers (h1) make it feel like such a heavy code.
  • Can't compare with the last commit in a PR
    • Hard to see fixes between commits in a PR
  • Conversations can be "resolved", hiding conversations, no way to prevent this from happening
• Comments can't be made on branch comparisons
  • You have to make a PR first
  • https://github.com/aizatto/git-mv/compare/compare#diff-c3d57eb88086a04b1e04d06a9b6188e5R3
• Personal email address can leak into repositories via merges
  • https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/95
• https://github.com/isaacs/github
• https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
• https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/71g6c8/proposal_just_use_github_issue_21956_golanggo/

Notes

• Go is on GitHub, but they use Gerrit for code review

Alternatives

• GitLab
• Upsource
• Phabricator
• Critque (Used at Google)

Tooling

Hub

brew install hub

https://github.com/github/hub/issues/435

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