Xcode 9: Adding Your Project to GitHub

February 21st, 2018

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Before Xcode 9, setting up your project to work on GitHub involved a lot of work. You had to login to GitHub, create a repository, go back to your Mac, launch the Terminal application, navigate to your project directory, and run multiple git commands. Xcode 9 makes working with GitHub much easier. You can add […]


Xcode 9: Improved GitHub Support

September 15th, 2017

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Xcode 9 makes it easier to work with GitHub. Start by adding your GitHub account to Xcode. Go to Xcode’s Accounts preferences, click the Add button, and choose GitHub to add your GitHub account. Once you add your GitHub account to Xcode, you can go to any GitHub repository and clone the project in Xcode […]


Creating an Xcode Project to Work with GitHub or Bitbucket

September 30th, 2015

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GitHub and Bitbucket are two of the most popular sites for storing git repositories online. In this article you’ll learn how to create an Xcode project and have it hosted on GitHub or Bitbucket. NOTE It may sound obvious, but you must first sign up for an account on GitHub or Bitbucket. Hosting an Xcode […]


Making Your README file readable on github on a Mac

January 6th, 2011

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I recently put a small project on github as an experiment. The biggest problem I had was getting the project’s README file to look right. Github supports a variety of markup languages, but not RTF (Rich Text Format), which is the file format the Cocoa text system uses. If you supply a RTF file and […]