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desktop/desktop

Simple collaboration from your desktop

TypeScript 9.3k 4.9k
desktop

Forked from desktop/desktop

Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions

TypeScript 1.8k 184
desktop/dugite

Elegant bindings for working with Git in your Node applications

TypeScript 244 68
git-for-windows/git

Forked from git/git

A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.

C 5.2k 1.6k
octokit/octokit.net

A GitHub API client library for .NET

C# 1.9k 917
Code52/carnac

A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard

C# 1.3k 250

3,624 contributions in the last year

Activity overview

Contributed to up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net, desktop/desktop, octokit/octokit.net and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

May 2020

shiftkey/github-desktop-aur Shell May 14
shiftkey/publish-desktop-to-packagecloud TypeScript May 12
shiftkey/website HTML May 7
shiftkey/upload-an-image-test-repo May 3

Created a pull request in octokit/octokit.net that received 2 comments

add publish on tag action to push releases to NuGet

This one goes out to @geoffreyhuntley and all the other hecklers

+26 −0 • 2 comments

backport new packaging for Red Hat-based distributions May 18
add section to README for installing package May 13
apply changes for 2.5.0 release May 12
add simpler packaging dockerfile May 10
handle deprecated Electron warnings May 2
move redhat packaging out to own step May 2
apply changes for 2.4.3 release May 1

Support for yaml extensions on data files May 22
handle mis-typed URL and explicitly warn about problem May 7
add test for deleted file in PR May 7
update dependencies and bundler version May 3
extract module for pull request validation May 3
catch failures introduced by new cops when upgrading May 3

add support for opening in Codespaces May 22
Update dockerfile May 22
bump dependencies to latest versions May 3
enable new cops to catch problems when upgrading rubocop May 3
use vendor folder for gems to avoid requring root May 3

update for latest bugfix May 7
update to ruby 2.7 as new baseline May 7
bump to latest stable version of ruby May 7
update to new module May 6
enable new cops by default when updating rubocop May 3

add prebuild support for electron 9 May 23
add support for prebuild for node 14 May 2

move CI to GitHub Actions May 18
bump version to 2.5.0-linux1 May 14

testing new version against CI May 17
add action to verify package using Docker May 17

Update @martinwoodward's card May 9
add a sentence for the resources section May 7

drop unnecessary includes to preserve ABI compatibility May 25

Add PowerShell docker images project May 27
regenerated project stats May 27
Adding the Gryphon project May 27
Create PyConSys.yml May 25
add support for opening in Codespaces May 22
Adding a project May 14
Updated project stats May 13
Update QuickPerf projects May 11
Updated project stats May 7
Add test.io to project list May 7
adding the npm npjs-basic project May 7
Updated project stats May 6
Create NetCore2BLockly.yml May 6
Create NetCore2Blockly May 6
Create JHipster.NET.yml May 2
Adding Voodoo2D project May 2
adding AutoDrive_RouteManager May 1

Add *.aab May 19
ignore .xwm generated by xwatermark package in TeX May 19
Added Drop, Out to VisualStudio.gitignore May 18
Add .yarn/install-state.gz to Node.gitignore May 14
Adding MigrationBackup/ to VisualStudio May 8
Dart: Ignore .flutter-plugins May 6

add prebuild support for Electron 9 May 19
fixup deletePassword to properly throw an error May 11
migrate keytar to use n-api May 10

readme: add language property to code blocks May 29

Created an issue in shiftkey/desktop that received 9 comments

PackageCloud Trial for Debian and RPM users

If you're using a Debian or RPM-based distro I've started evaluating PackageCloud as a way of distributing updates. The trial lasts for 2 weeks. Th…

9 comments

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153 contributions in private repositories May 1 – May 30

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