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Here’s a 4th step: Be quite liberal with your cross-referencing of issues, pull requests, commits, comments in Github’s UI. GitHub will prominently display th

Here’s a 4th step: Be quite liberal with your cross-referencing of issues, pull requests, commits, comments in Github’s UI. GitHub will prominently display these reference breadcrumb whenever you’re navigating around. When I found myself in an obscure Github issue tracking down a problem, it was _awesome_ to see a reference made 6 months ago by a colleague in a different team. Now that I’ve left plenty of references in my own little corner of Github, I’ve made my own life easier too.

thethirdone 7y ago
This has been very helpful when working on my own projects. I find issue to be a great way to add context to commits. If a commit solves part of an ongoing problem, referencing it helps clue yourself in on why you made the change you did when you git blame yourself.