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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)

Tips and tricks

So far, we have explored most of the functionality of pull requests. Let's see a couple of things that leverage their power even more.

Closing issues via commit messages

In Chapter 1, Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker, in the Tips and tricks section, you learned how to reference issues inside the issue tracker. Extending this ability, you can reference issue numbers in commit messages in order to close some issues when the commit is merged to the default branch.

For this action to be triggered, you have to use some keywords. For example, Closes #42 in the commit message will close issue 42 when that commit is merged with the default branch.

As per the GitHub documentation, the following...