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GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

By : Achilleas Pipinellis
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GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

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By: Achilleas Pipinellis

Overview of this book

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. Starting with the basics of creating a repository, you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussions about your project take place. Continuing our journey, we will explore how to use the wiki and write rich documentation that will accompany your project. You will also master organization/team management and some of the features that made GitHub so well known, including pull requests. Next, we will focus on creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub and lastly, we will explore the settings that are configurable for a user and a repository.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Using the wiki

When you first create a new repository, a wiki attached to this project is also created. It is enabled by default and everyone can add new content or modify existing pages. If you want to change this behavior, you can refer to Chapter 6, Exploring the User and Repository Settings, which shows you how to accomplish this.

Why wikis are a nice place to document your project

Documentation is not to be taken lightly. To paraphrase a famous quote, with great projects comes great documentation.

Although there are many tools that convert markup files, such as Markdown to HTML, you may not want to use an external page to host your documentation. Enter GitHub wiki.

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