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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)

Chapter 3. Managing Organizations and Teams

It is important to know when to host a project under your namespace and when under an organization. With the organization, you have the ability to create teams and provide different access levels to people in the various repositories that are hosted under it.

In this chapter, we will go through creating an organization, inviting people, and granting them access to the repositories that are hosted under the organization. You will learn how to create teams and associate members of your organization to them as well as with the repositories.

Note

This chapter was written with the new improved organization permissions in mind. It is a pack of new features and was first announced in June 2015. For more information, read the blog post at https://github.com/blog/2020-improved-organization-permissions and the relevant page at https://github.com/orgs/improved-permissions.