I ran into a stubborn GitHub notification blue dot that wouldn’t go away even though the Notifications page showed nothing. Here’s the quick, safe way I found to resolve it, plus a few alternatives and notes on why it happens.
...Sometimes you encounter a large repository but only need a few directories from it. Cloning the entire repo wastes both time and disk space. Git’s sparse checkout solves this problem by letting you pull only the parts you need.
...Git submodule[1] is a feature of Git that allows you to include a Git repository as a subdirectory of another Git repository. It is often used to manage dependencies between projects.
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This is a Git cheatsheet that distills my years of experience.
Most of time, we need to reply the commiter to adjust some code, sometimes it’s not efficient. Instead, we can directly add the commit to the PR.
...Sometimes we make too many small commits during development, and it’s better to squash them into one clean commit before pushing. Here’s how to use git rebase -i to merge multiple commits.