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GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

By : Achilleas Pipinellis

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GitHub Essentials

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By: Achilleas Pipinellis

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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.

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Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker

Exploring the repository's main page

Learning how to use the powerful benefits of the issue tracker

Summary

Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning

Using the wiki

Managing code versioning

Tips and tricks

Summary

Managing Organizations and Teams

The difference between users and organizations

Organization roles and repository permission levels

Creating an organization

Global member privileges

Repositories

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

The People tab

Organization settings

Tips and tricks

Summary

Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow

Learning about pull requests

Peer review and inline comments

Merging the pull request

Tips and tricks

Summary

GitHub Pages and Web Analytics

GitHub Pages

Web analytics

Tips and tricks

Summary

Exploring the User and Repository Settings

User settings

Repository settings

Tips and tricks

Summary

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User settings

You can visit your user's settings page by navigating through the web interface (under your avatar's drop-down list) or by visiting https://github.com/settings/profile directly:

For example, here is what my settings landing page looks like:

We are going to analyze the most important settings GitHub provides.

Profile

Under Personal settings, you can see various options that you can customize to your liking.

The Profile settings is where you can fill in your personal information so that people know who you are. Consider it like socialization. After all, GitHub is the Facebook of geeks.

All the profile information is optional to fill in. You can see what this will look like by visiting your username...

Tech Concepts

Programming languages

Tech Tools