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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)

Organization settings


So far, we have only explored the Member privileges setting. Let's see the rest of them.

Profile

From the profile page, you can change the organization's name and its description, add a URL and a profile picture, rename the organization namespace, and even delete it:

After making all of these changes, you can see that the landing page of your organization will be a little bit prettier:

Team privacy

This is a nice feature if you want to turn all teams to private or public at once. For the sake of this example, I created another team; this time SECRET. It will be visible only to owners and whoever is that team's member:

The Team privacy settings will now look as follows:

Pick the option you want and convert them all to public or make them secret.

The third-party access

The third-party access is an advanced setting. Some applications and many web apps have a way to interact with GitHub and gather information about repositories, teams, user data, and so on. This is accomplished...