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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 Reviewer

Umesh Ram Sharma has more than 6 years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of scalable and distributed cloud-based applications. He has a master's degree in computer science and information technology and is also an expert in the practical and technical implementation of various offerings of J2EE stack, Hibernate, and Spring Stack.

He is currently working as a senior software engineer, with a growing interest in the DevOps area. He handles product infrastructure on AWS cloud and develops expertise around automated deployments. He has demonstrated great value by implementing deployment, configuration management with puppet and various technologies, such as AWS Cloud, J2EE, MySql, MongoDB, memcache, Apache Tomcat, and Hazelcast.