Production Guide Toolkit

Welcome to the Production Guide toolkit! This comprehensive collection of guides provides advanced and professional strategies, commands, and workflows for contributing to open source projects, managing production-ready code, and mastering GitHub usage.

📋 Table of Contents

Core Guides

• Core/OpenSourceContributionAdvanced.md: Advanced strategies for open source contribution, including forking, branching, committing, PR management, and collaboration best practices.
• Core/GitHubCommands.md: Comprehensive Git and GitHub CLI commands for repository management, branching, pull requests, and issue handling.
• Core/GitHubPushCommands.md: Advanced Git push commands, including setup, force pushes, tagging, submodules, and troubleshooting.
• Core/GitHubWorkflows.md: Guide to GitHub Actions for automating CI/CD, testing, linting, and deployment workflows.

Git and Branching

• Git-Branching/BasicAndAdvancedGitPushCommands.md: Basic and advanced Git push commands.
• Git-Branching/BranchManagement.md: Branch management strategies.
• Git-Branching/BranchManagementBestPractices.md: Best practices for creating, managing, and merging branches in collaborative projects.
• Git-Branching/ForkingStrategies.md: Comprehensive strategies for forking repositories and maintaining sync with upstream.
• Git-Branching/ForcePushWhenAndHowToUseSafely.md: When and how to use force pushes safely.
• Git-Branching/PopularBranchingModels.md: Compare Git Flow vs GitHub Flow vs Trunk-Based Development with pros/cons and diagrams.

Commits and Pull Requests

• Commits-PRs/CommitMessageConventions.md: Professional commit message standards and conventional commit format guide.
• Commits-PRs/PullRequestManagement.md: Managing pull requests effectively.
• Commits-PRs/HandlingReviewsAndFeedback.md: Handling reviews and feedback.

Code Review and Best Practices

• Code-Review-Best-Practices/CodeReviewBestPractices.md: Best practices for code reviews.
• Code-Review-Best-Practices/CodeReviewChecklist.md: Detailed checklist for conducting thorough code reviews and providing constructive feedback.
• Code-Review-Best-Practices/GitBestPractices.md: Git best practices.
• Code-Review-Best-Practices/GitHubBestPractices.md: GitHub best practices.
• Code-Review-Best-Practices/best-practices.md: General best practices.
• Code-Review-Best-Practices/ContributingGuidelines.md: Guidelines for contributing.

Automation and Integration

• Automation-Integration/GitHubActionsCIIntegrationTips.md: Tips for integrating CI with GitHub Actions.
• Automation-Integration/GitHubAutomation.md: Automation scripts, tools, and workflows for streamlining GitHub operations and contributions.
• Automation-Integration/GitHubAPI.md: Using the GitHub API.
• Automation-Integration/ReusableWorkflows.md: Guide to callable/reusable GitHub Actions workflows.
• Automation-Integration/AdvancedActionsTips.md: Advanced GitHub Actions features including matrices, concurrency, environments, secrets management, and OIDC.

Security and Troubleshooting

• Security-Troubleshooting/GitHubSecurity.md: Security best practices, vulnerability management, and secure contribution workflows.
• Security-Troubleshooting/GitHubTroubleshooting.md: Troubleshooting GitHub issues.
• Security-Troubleshooting/TroubleshootingGit.md: Common Git and GitHub issues with step-by-step solutions and debugging techniques.

Release and Tagging

• Release-Tagging/TaggingAndReleasing.md: Tagging and releasing versions.
• Release-Tagging/ReleaseManagement.md: Release management strategies.

Specialized Guides

• Specialized/CodeStylingAndHooks.md: Code styling and Git hooks.
• Specialized/DocumentationStandards.md: Standards for documentation.
• Specialized/ManagingLargeRepos.md: Managing large repositories.
• Specialized/CrossTeamCollaboration.md: Cross-team collaboration.
• Specialized/SecurityPractices.md: Security practices.

Advanced Topics

• Advanced-Topics/MonorepoManagement.md: Tools and strategies for managing large repositories, including Git LFS, submodules, and modern tools like Nx/Turbo.
• Advanced-Topics/GitHooksAndPreCommit.md: Comprehensive implementation guide for Git hooks and pre-commit tools to maintain code quality.
• Advanced-Topics/PerformanceOptimization.md: Git performance optimization for large repositories including sparse checkout, shallow clones, and performance techniques.

Templates & Checklists

• Templates-Checklists/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md: Checklist for releases.
• Templates-Checklists/COMMIT_CONVENTION.md: Commit convention guidelines.
• Templates-Checklists/CodeReviewChecklist.md: Code review checklist.
• Templates-Checklists/DEPENDABOT.yml: GitHub Dependabot configuration for automated dependency updates.
• Templates-Checklists/CODEOWNERS: CODEOWNERS file for automatic reviewer assignment.
• Templates-Checklists/FUNDING.yml: FUNDING.yml for GitHub Sponsors and sponsorship setup.
• Templates-Checklists/CITATION.cff: Citation File Format for academic citing of the toolkit.

Onboarding and Setup

• Onboarding-Setup/ContributorOnboarding.md: Onboarding new contributors.
• Onboarding-Setup/SetupSSHHTTPS.md: Setting up SSH and HTTPS for Git.

Project Management

• Project-Management/CONTRIBUTING.md: Guidelines for contributing to this toolkit project.
• Project-Management/maintainers.md: Maintainers guide.
• Project-Management/reviewers.md: Reviewers guide.
• Project-Management/LabelsIssuesProjects.md: Best practices for using GitHub Issues, Labels, Milestones, and Projects.
• Project-Management/DiscussionsAndFunding.md: Enabling GitHub Discussions; adding FUNDING.yml for sponsorships.

Additional Resources

• Additional/write-up.md: Planning document and notes for the toolkit development.
• Additional/acheivement.md: Achievements and success stories.

Legal & Licensing

• Legal/LICENSE: License information for this toolkit.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Choose Your Focus: Select the guide that matches your current needs (e.g., start with OpenSourceContributionAdvanced.md for overall strategy).
2. Follow Step-by-Step: Each guide provides practical commands and examples you can copy-paste.
3. Combine Knowledge: Use multiple guides together for complex workflows (e.g., PR creation + GitHub Actions).
4. Use Templates & Checklists: Refer to the templates and checklists for standardized processes.

📖 How to Use This Toolkit

• For Beginners: Start with OpenSourceContributionAdvanced.md to understand the contribution workflow.
• For Command Reference: Use GitHubCommands.md and GitHubPushCommands.md as cheat sheets.
• For Automation: Refer to GitHubWorkflows.md for setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• For Real-World Examples: Check the detailed examples and case studies in each guide.

🛠️ Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of Git and GitHub
• GitHub account
• Git installed locally
• (Optional) GitHub CLI (gh) for advanced command-line operations

🎯 Key Topics Covered

• ✅ Forking and repository management
• ✅ Branching strategies and best practices
• ✅ Professional commit messages and PR descriptions
• ✅ Handling PR reviews and feedback
• ✅ Force pushes and conflict resolution
• ✅ GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation
• ✅ Issue tracking and project management
• ✅ Collaboration and communication tips
• ✅ Code styling and Git hooks
• ✅ Documentation standards
• ✅ Managing large repositories
• ✅ Cross-team collaboration
• ✅ Security practices
• ✅ Release checklists and commit conventions

📚 Additional Resources

• GitHub Documentation
• GitHub CLI Manual
• Git Basics
• Conventional Commits
• Awesome GitHub Actions
• Building Reusable Workflows

🤝 Contributing

This toolkit is designed to grow with community input. If you have suggestions for improvements or additional guides, feel free to contribute!

📄 License

This toolkit is provided as-is for educational and professional use in open source contributions.

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Happy contributing! 🚀 Master these guides and become a confident open source contributor.

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