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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)

About the Author

Achilleas Pipinellis is an open source enthusiast and tries to get involved in as many projects as possible. He was introduced to Linux almost 10 years ago and hasn't looked back ever since. His distribution of choice is Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible system that adheres to the KISS philosophy.

He is currently working as a system administrator and likes to try new technologies, especially those that require some special deployment. He also enjoys writing technical guides and articles that help people learn about new technologies. He strongly believes that comprehensive documentation is essential to a project's growth and recognition.

In his free time he practices Aikido and enjoys going to conferences that promote the open source movement.