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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)

The People tab


The People tab is where, as an owner, you can manage the organization members' privileges:

From the preceding image, you can see that, as an owner, you have a higher overview of the members in your organization. Let's examine what all of these settings mean.

The red triangle simply means that a member has not enabled Two-factor Authentication. From a security perspective, you would want every member of the organization to have enabled 2FA to prevent a potential account compromise that would lead to gaining access to the organization's repositories.

Then, you can see in how many teams each member is part of. Clicking on the number will show you the exact teams.

The next thing is the visibility of the organization membership. Each user must set the visibility for themselves. Set it to Private to hide your membership and choose Public to publicize it. If you publicize it, the organization's avatar will show in your profile. Owners can change the visibility from public to private...