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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)

Repositories


So, the first tab on your new dashboard is Repositories, and since there is none at that time, GitHub urges you to create one.

Once you hit the New repository button, you will be taken to a familiar page, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you read Chapter 1, Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker, you will notice that the only thing that changes when creating a repository is the namespace. If I wanted, I could have created the repository under my username by choosing it from the drop-down menu:

Now that the repository is created, you can upload the code from your computer and start working on it.

You might have noticed in the repository's landing page when it was first created, GitHub has a message to add teams and collaborators:

If you want to grant access to certain people immediately, then you should follow that route. For our purposes, given this is a new organization, we must first learn about teams and their differences with outside collaborators as...