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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)

Chapter 5. GitHub Pages and Web Analytics

In this chapter, you will learn to build web pages around your project, hosted for free and exclusively on GitHub, by using Jekyll that is a static site generator or providing your own HTML pages.

Continuing our exploration of the GitHub features, next comes the ability to visualize a repository's data. GitHub has implemented some nice features such as graphs that can depict among others the commit activity of the contributors, the traffic a repository gains, as well as the commit history in a network graph.

Let's dive in!