There are lots of hidden secrets, keyboard shortcuts, hacks, and more that can make you and your team’s GitHub experience more productive, personal, and entertaining. Here are some Protips that Vitor Monteiro, GitHub Strategic Architect, has picked up along the way that might be useful to you.
GitHub Desktop 2.4 gets you set up to work behind a proxy without having to configure anything manually, allows you to easily create an issue, and brings dark theme out of beta.
With easier organization and increased scalability, repository admins can more efficiently control access management to get users the permissions they need.
Now, anyone can connect an issue to a pull request from the issue directly using the new linked pull request section providing greater context to your workflow.
GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.
IP allow lists gives you the ability to limit access to enterprise assets to an allowed set of source IPs, and it’s now available in public beta for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers.
Self-hosted runners offers a number of advantages when the hosted virtual environments don’t meet all your needs and it’s now available for GitHub Actions in beta.
Now out of beta, the internal repository visibility allows an enterprise-owned repository to be read by any member of any organization that belongs to an enterprise account.