Are we using any hub features?

[raq929]

Because I don't see why we install it if we're not using it, and as far as I can tell we're not.

[gaand]

Do you have hub installed? If not, how do you know. If so, how do you know?

[raq929]

From looking at https://hub.github.com/, I see it give us a lot of shortcuts, but we don't use them in our repos.

[raq929]

Upon further discussion with @gaand - We are using tab completion for branches and possibly for files after --. I'm going to investigate on my machine tomorrow, which has hub but does not have these features to see if a step was missed in hub installation here. (I followed these installation steps before 015).

[jrhorn424]

A good place to use hub create would be after renaming a template repository and creating a history, since we've gotten a request to explicitly mention creating a remote.

# create a repo for a new project
$ git init
$ git add . && git commit -m "It begins."
$ git create -d "My new thing"
→ (creates a new project on GitHub with the name of current directory)
$ git push origin master

[jrhorn424]

If we're not using it much, I think we should use it more. To that end, we could use this shortcut for cloning repos, instead of giving them the opportunity to copy/paste the HTTP link. :wink:

# clone another project
$ git clone github/hub
→ git clone git://github.com/github/hub.git

[jrhorn424]

# open a pull request for the topic branch you've just pushed
$ git pull-request

[raq929]

I'm satisfied that we should install it and have opened an issue on meta for further discussion of how to incorporate it in our materials.