I’m writing documents that should explain code in C# using Markdown. I use the “`csharp to get csharp highlighting. I sometimes want to highlight something specific in the code using bold or anything. I know about <pre> etc… but it takes away my csharp highlighting. Best case scenario – some way to highlight code in … Read more
I know that the GitHub web interface lets you search all repositories for files with a particular pathname (e.g. searching for path:/app/models/user.rb yields > 109k results), but is there a way to search all repositories for filenames independent of their subdirectory location? I tried using asterisks in the path argument, and that didn’t seem to … Read more
In Github, is there a way I can see the number of downloads for a repo? 20 Answers 20
Is there a way to show the Jenkins build status on my project’s GitHub Readme.md? I use Jenkins to run continuous integration builds. After each commit it ensures that everything compiles, as well as executes unit and integration tests, before finally producing documentation and release bundles. There’s still a risk of inadvertently committing something that … Read more
How can I find the created date of a project on GitHub? Basically, I have to find the first commit to see the created date, however, some projects have 500 commits, which wastes a lot of time trying to get to the first commit page. Is there a quicker way to get the created date? … Read more
I am hosting a Jekyll Blog on Github and write my posts with Markdown. When I am adding images, I do it the following way:  This then shows the image in the text. However, how can I tell Markdown to add a caption which is presented below or above the image? … Read more
Since I first saw a dist/ directory in many open source projects, usually on GitHub, I’ve been wondering what it means. With dist, vendor, lib, src, and many other folder names that we see quite often, I sometimes wonder how I should name my own folders. Correct me if I’m wrong! src: Contains the sources. … Read more
I’m building Docker images with Github Actions and want to tag images with the branch name. I found the GITHUB_REF variable, but it results in refs/heads/feature-branch-1 and I need only feature-branch-1. 27 Answers 27
Is there any way to render LaTex in README.md in a GitHub repository? I’ve googled it and searched on stack overflow but none of the related answers seems feasible. 16 Answers 16
Github has a great feature where you can “watch” an issue. This is handy for getting notifications about progress on that issue. However, sometimes you want to find the status of an issue you know you’ve flagged to watch, but can’t remember what it was. This is particularly interesting, imho, for projects that are not … Read more
