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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)

Managing Organizations and Teams

In Chapter 2, Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning, we explored how you can accompany your project with documentation using the built-in wiki that GitHub provides, and we saw how to manage your code versions with GitHub releases.

It is important to know when to host a project under your namespace and when under an organization. With the organization, you have the ability to create teams and provide different access levels to people in the various repositories that are hosted under it.

In this chapter, we will go through creating an organization, inviting people, and granting them access to the repositories that are hosted under the organization. You will learn how to create teams and associate members of your organization to them as well as with the repositories.

We will cover the following:

  • The difference between users and organizations...