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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)

Teams – a great way to grant selective access to your organization projects

A team is how you control different access levels in your repositories. Next, we will see how to create a team and add members to it.

Creating a team

As with most cases in GitHub, you can create a team in different ways. The apparent way is to head over to the Teams tab and create a new team by clicking the New team button:

Another way to create a team is to head over to the Settings of an organization repository, and under the Collaborators and teams tab, hit the Create new team button. Notice that only a repository that lives under an organization namespace will have the Teams option. If you edit a personal project, you can only see the Collaborators...