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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)

Summary


That's it! Congratulations on finishing this chapter. You should now be familiar with almost all organization features. Creating teams, inviting people, and managing repository access should feel much more easier.

If you found it difficult to follow, I would recommend you to just play with it, make a test organization, and go through the chapter again. Full disclosure, this is how this chapter was written. I created an organization, a second test user and through trial and error this chapter was born. Given that GitHub has released the new organization features in beta, I had to do a lot of testing. I think the result was worth the effort.

In the next chapter, we will explore GitHub's strongest point: collaboration and pull requests.