Sometimes, you might fork and make some changes to the original GitHub repository. If you want others to install your forked repo, use pip install -e git+https://github.com/username/package.git#egg=package.
The code above shows how to install the forked repo of NumPy.
Link to the source code.
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If you want to compare the previous version and the current version of a notebook, use nbdime. The image above shows how 2 versions of a notebook are compared with nbdime.
To install nbdime, type:
pip install nbdime
After installing, click the little icon in the top right corner to use nbdime.
Link to nbdime.
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If you create a local folder before creating a GitHub repository for it, you might need to go to the GitHub website then create a new repository, then add a remote to your current folder. Is there any way that all of these steps could be done in the terminal in 1 line of code?
That is when GitHub CLI comes in handy. The code snippet above shows how to create a new Github repository in your local folder.
With GitHub CLI, you can also manage your pull requests, issues, repositories, gists, and so much more! Check out GitHub CLI here.Favorite
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Syntax highlighting in VS Code makes it easy for you to understand the source code. Is there a way that you can read GitHub code with VS Code in 1s?
Yes, there is. Simply replace github.com/yourname/repository with github1s.com/yourname/repository to view Github with VS Code. It should show up like above.
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If you want to manage your Github resources (repositories, user profiles, organizations, etc.) from Python scripts, try PyGithub. Above is an example to get a list of Github repositories when searching for a certain topic.
You just need Github object your Github account to get almost any information on Github.
I used PyGithub along with other Python libraries to scrape more than 1k top machine learning Github profiles.
Find more on how to use PyGithub here.
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I have been sharing many tools and you might not be able to keep up with them. To save and organize the tools you discovered on Github, you can use Astral.
With Astral, you can organize my starred Github repositories like below.
I have been using this for months and it is super quick when I want to find the right tool for my project.
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Pull the files from another branch into your branch can be messy. What if you just want to pull one file from another branch? You can easily to like that with the code snippet below
git fetch command downloads contents from remote repository
git checkout command lets you navigate to another branch
git add command adds a change in the working directory to the staging area
git commit command captures the state of a project at that point in time
Now you just update one file in your branch without messing with the rest!Favorite
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If you want to download a file on Github such as a csv file, instead of cloning the repo, simply use the code snippet above. For example, if the website the file you want to extract is ‘https://github.com/khuyentran1401/Data-science/blob/master/visualization/dropdown/population.csv’, type:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khuyentran1401/Data-science/master/visualization/dropdown/population.csv
Now the data is in your directory!Favorite
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