Tips and tricks

Here is a tip to get notified about new releases in an atom feed. Also, while you familiarize yourself with Git, you'll be happy to know that you can edit a project's wiki locally.

Subscribing to new releases via atom feed

If you are used to subscribing to feeds to learn the news regarding your favorite blogs, you will be happy to know that you can subscribe to get notified about new releases on GitHub.

Simply go to the releases page and append .atom to the end of the URL. For example, https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/releases becomes https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/releases.atom. Cool, isn't it?

Editing the wiki locally

As mentioned in the wiki commit history section, every wiki is a separate git repository. As such, you can clone it, make changes locally, and push back to GitHub.

It is powered by the gollum Ruby library that we will install and use to preview the wiki locally.

Installing gollum

The gollum library is packaged as a Ruby gem, and the easiest and quickest...