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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)

The People tab

The People tab is where, as an owner, you can manage the organization members' privileges:

From the previous screenshot, you can see that, as an owner, you have a higher overview of the members in your organization. Let's examine what all of these settings mean.

The 2FA mark simply means that a member has not enabled Two-factor authentication. From a security perspective, you would want every member of the organization to have enabled 2FA to prevent a potential account compromise that would lead to gaining access to the organization's repositories.

The next thing is the visibility of the organization membership. Each user must set the visibility for themselves. Set it to Private to hide your membership and choose Public to publicize it. If you publicize it, the organization's avatar will show in your profile.

Next, you can see how many teams...