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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)

Global member privileges

Prior to inviting people and creating any repositories, let's examine two important settings and set some defaults. Head over to the Settings page and select the Member privileges tab:

As you can see, there are various settings regarding the repositories. The first is about repository creation, and if enabled, any member of the organization will be able to create repositories under the organization namespace.

Enable this if you want to work more openly and disable it to be more strict. By disabling it, only owners will be able to create repositories. Outside collaborators (see the Difference between Members and Outside collaborators section) will not be able to create any repositories regardless of this option.

The next two options are for members with admin permissions on repositories. You can enable or disable the repository deletion and their...