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I have been using ST3 for a while now on test drive and I have checked out some of the themes currently available for Sublime Text 3. All of these themes are available via Package Control. I am also going to link the screenshots to their respective github repo in case you don’t want to use Package Control for some (weird) reasons.

Soda Theme

Soda is probably the most popular theme for Sublime Text

Flatland Theme

Cobalt 2

Nexus Theme

Reminds me of Google Nexus.

Pseudo OSX theme

Mac / OS X users are going to love this one

Reeder Theme

Here’s another nice one

Phoenix Theme

And it’s cool

Centurion

Which one did I miss?

So you know there’s a cool theme for ST3 that is not yet on this list? Please let me know in the comments, I shall add it.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book for review purposes.

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The book Instant Sublime Text Starter is another nice title from Packtpub. The book gets an user started with the Sublime Text editor with very simple instructions. The book starts with installation and covers all major platforms. Having used the various operating systems over the year, I’ve found the instructions more than adequate for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX users.

The book highlights the common features of Sublime Text and provides a decent walk through. It also provides guidelines on where to go next to master the text editor. The book, as a starter is a very good one. If you’re into building software, Sublime Text could be a useful tool. And this book would certainly help you start instantly.

Why use Git tag?

Git tags are like milestones, markers or a specific point in the repo’s history marked as significant. Tags are usually used to mark stable releases or achievement of very important milestones.

Tags can help the users of the repo to easily navigate to the important parts of the code history like release points. For example, on Github, you can easily grab archive of “tags” in the current repo.

Dealing with Tags

List tags:

Search in tags:

That will display tags starting with “v1.” – use regex and your common sense to do complex queries. This can help you narrow down your query in case you have plenty of tags in the repo.

View a tag:

Note: The command doesn’t have “tag” in it. 🙂

Adding tags:

The “-a” denotes an annotated tag – means it’s stored as a full object in the git database where as a non annotated tag is just a pointer to a specific commit. Just drop the “-a” to create normal tags. The “-m” option is of course obvious, it allows you to add a message to the annotated tag.

Adding Tags later:

This will add the “v1.2” tag to the commit marked by “9fceb02”. “git log” will help you get the checksum of the commit.

Pushing Tags to remote branch:

PS: Git tags are not pushed automatically with generic “git push” command. You must push the tags separately.

Deleting a tag:

That will delete the tag v1.0.0.

These are the very common uses of Git tags. Look at the git manual for more complex stuff you can do with tagging 🙂