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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)

Teams – a great way to grant selective access to your organization projects


Team is how you control different access levels in your repositories. Next, we will see how to create a team and add members to it.

Creating a team

As with most cases in GitHub, you can create a team in different ways. The apparent way is to head over to the Teams tab and create a new team:

The other way is to head over the settings of a repository and under the Collaborators and teams tab, hit the Create new team button:

Notice that only a repository that lives under an organization namespace will have the Teams option. If you edit a personal project, you can only see the Collaborators box.

When you first create a new team, you will be presented with the following form:

The team name is mandatory and the action is two-fold. You can enter a human-readable text with punctuation and capitalization, but notice that the name that will appear in the URL is converted to lowercase. For example, GitHub Core will be github-core...