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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)

Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow

In Chapter 3, Managing Organizations and Teams, we explored how you can create and manage organizations and teams that will further help you in collaborating with others.

GitHub is a great tool for collaboration and, as such, it has come up with a workflow based on the features it provides and the power of Git. It has named it the GitHub workflow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow).

In this chapter, we will learn how to work with branches and pull requests, which are the most powerful features of GitHub. Here's what we will cover:

  • Learning about pull requests
  • Peer review and inline comments
  • Merging the pull request
  • Tips and tricks