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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)

Peer review and inline comments


The nice thing about pull requests is that you have a nice and clear view of what is about to get merged. You can see only the changes that matter, and the best part is that you can fire up a discussion concerning those changes.

In the previous section, we submitted the pull request so that it can be reviewed and eventually get merged. Suppose that we are collaborating with a team and they chime in to discuss the changes. Let's first check the layout of a pull request.

The layout of a pull request

Every pull request looks pretty much like the following:

From the preceding screenshot, you can tell what the specific number of the pull request is. It is like an identifier within the project and is not separated from the issues count. Issues and pull requests share the same ID counter. So, in the above example, you can see that although this is our first pull request, it has a number of #4; the previous three were issues:

Then, there is the information that the pull...