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Useful GitHub tricks and tips - 1

Github tricks and tips:

  • Hello, everyone. I recently stumbled upon an interesting GitHub trick that I thought would be worth sharing. To try it out, navigate to any of your repositories on GitHub. For instance, I'm currently on my travel guide landing page repository.

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Now, here comes the trick: simply press the full stop key on your keyboard. Surprisingly, this action opens an editor with the repository. As you can observe in the screenshot,

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this provides a convenient way to access and edit your repository directly. I found this feature to be quite handy, and I hope you find it useful as well. Feel free to give it a try on your own GitHub repositories.
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