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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)

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 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.