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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)

Repositories

So, the first tab on your new dashboard is Repositories, and since there is none at that time, GitHub urges you to create one.

Once you hit the Create a new repository button, you will be taken to a familiar page. If you read Chapter 1, Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker, you will notice that the only thing that changes when creating a repository is the namespace. If I wanted, I could have created the repository under my username by choosing it from the drop-down menu.

After you fill in the information and the repository is created, you can upload the code from your computer and start working on it. You might have noticed in the repository's landing page when it was first created, that GitHub has a message to add teams and collaborators:

If you want to grant access to certain people immediately, then you should follow that route. For our...