+ [2016-04-25T20:29:42Z] Epitrope owen1: this might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
+ [2016-04-25T20:30:23Z] owen1 Epitrope: awesome
+ [2016-04-25T20:30:57Z] Epitrope cybernite: yeah, that's what I was thinking of... you only need the setup once (per repo), but then you can check out any pr against that repo without adding the other user's repo
+ [2016-04-25T22:32:49Z] Lucifer333 hola, how do i turn on gitter for a project?
+ [2016-04-25T22:35:37Z] Lucifer333 hola, how do i turn on gitter for a project?

message no. 133158

Posted by Epitrope in #github at 2016-04-25T20:21:14Z

whatever diff tool you prefer is fine; the advantage of using github's diff viewer is that you don't have to check it out
+ [2016-04-26T01:23:15Z] vith does pushing to a branch in an active PR send notifications to participants in the PR thread?
+ [2016-04-26T01:38:55Z] locrian9 I wanted to create a template .gitignore to start using when I need to keep some dotfiles (eg .configrc) in my github remote repo. Here's a situation, and maybe someone has an answer. When you have the following directories under a main directory "foo" ("bar", "bash", "bin"), and you do a "git init" (while inside the "foo" directory). Then while still inside main directory "foo", you create a ".gitigno
+ [2016-04-26T01:39:01Z] locrian9 re" file, and put the following separated lines inside that .gitignore file.. Here I'll note the line#s in parenthesis (not code): (line#1) # Ignore everything (line#2) * (line#3) # But not these files (line#4) !*.txt (line#5) !*.doc (line#6) # Keep these directories (line#7) !bar (line#8) !bash (line#9) # ... even if they are in subdirectories (line#10) !*/ (end of file). When I did a "git status", after
+ [2016-04-26T01:39:02Z] gitinfo [!bare] A bare repository is used to push/fetch(useful for running a git server), and contains only the contents of .git/ from a "normal" repo. Read more: http://bare-vs-nonbare.gitrecipes.de/
+ [2016-04-26T01:39:07Z] locrian9 creating the .gitignore, I noticed the "bin" directory not listed in the "untracked files" as expected. Then I edited the .gitignore file and put in the line: !bin . I did another "git status" but it still didn't list the file as "untracked". When does the .gitignore take it's action? Is the action taken durring the "git init" or durring the "git add"?