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GitHub Essentials

By : Achilleas Pipinellis
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GitHub Essentials

By: Achilleas Pipinellis

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Whether you are an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with Version Control Systems is a must in the software development world. Git is the most popular tool for that purpose and GitHub was built around it leveraging its powers by bringing it to the web.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Starting with the basics of creating a repository you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussion about your project takes place. Continuing our journey we will explore how to use the wiki and write rich documentation that will accompany your project. Organization and team management will be the next stop and then onto the feature that made GitHub so well known, Pull Requests. Next we focus on creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub and lastly we explore the settings that are configurable for a user and a repository.</span></p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to create your first repository and explored its main page. You also learned how to effectively use the issue tracker in order to track your project's bugs, feature requests, and so on. Moreover, you learned how to use labels and milestones to better group the issues.

In the next chapter, we will learn about wikis as well as GitHub's feature about code release.