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title: "git-tips: A Decade of Open Source Impact"
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# git-tips: A Decade of Open Source Impact

> How a simple list of Git tricks became a top 0.01% GitHub repo. Practical notes and code examples on git-tips: A Decade of.

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](https://git.io/git-tips)