Tips for working with Git and GitHub

Some tips on Git and GitHub usage, in no particular order.

• Your browser is not the only way to interact with GitHub. Try:

  • the gh CLI
  • the forge package in Emacs

• Learn how to use git stash.

• VSCode tends to modify Jupyter notebooks as soon as you open them, even if you haven’t changed the code. These diffs can often be ignored.

• Use nbdiff to get meaningful diffs on Jupyter notebooks.