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git-tips: A Decade of Open Source Impact

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A decade ago, I started git-tips as a side project - just a simple list of git tricks.

Over the years, it went viral on GitHub multiple times, earned ✨ 21.6k+ stars, 1.7k+ forks, and got translated into 8 languages.

Even though searching for “git tips” on Google shows my repo as the first in the results, I assumed it had long faded into the archives of the internet…

Until a few weeks ago, when I got an unexpected email from a developer at Cognition (creators of Devin), saying:

“I analyzed over 28 million public repos, and yours was in the top 0.01%!”

🤯 Just wow.

It’s humbling to see how free and open-source software can keep making ripples years after its creation.

The community truly makes all the difference ❤️

Repo 👉 https://git.io/git-tips

#git#opensource#github#success
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About Hemanth HM

Hemanth HM is a Sr. Staff Engineer at PayPal, Google Developer Expert, TC39 delegate, FOSS advocate, and community leader with a passion for programming, AI, and open-source contributions..