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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

The next tip is to use some advanced techniques that use the GitHub API.

Making use of Github Pages' metadata with Jekyll

GitHub provides some metadata when using Jekyll for GitHub Pages. This means that you can add certain keywords in the Jekyll templates and these will be rendered automatically.

For example, you could add the {{ site.github.project_title }} variable, and the project title would be filled by GitHub automatically.

Following the example in the Introduction to Jekyll section of this chapter, we will add a new post to the Jekyll site.

Firstly, head over to the repository directory and make sure you are in the master branch and up to date:

git checkout master
git pull origin master

Next, copy...