| A good commit message looks like this: | |
| Header line: explaining the commit in one line | |
| Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things | |
| in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue | |
| being fixed, etc etc. | |
| The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and | |
| please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about |
Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.
In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.
Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j
The IPython Notebook has two different keyboard input modes. Edit mode allows you to type code/text into a cell and is indicated by a green cell border. Command mode binds the keyboard to notebook level actions and is indicated by a grey cell border.
| Action | tmux | screen |
|---|---|---|
| start a new session | tmux tmux new tmux new-session |
screen |
| start a new session with a name | tmux new -s name | screen -S name |
| re-attach a detached session | tmux attach tmux attach-session |
screen -r |
| re-attach a detached session with a name | tmux attach -t name tmux a -t name |
screen -r name |
| re-attach an attached session (detaching it from elsewhere) | tmux attach -dtmux attach-session -d | screen -dr |