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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)

GitHub Pages and Web Analytics

In this chapter, you will learn how to build web pages around your project, hosted for free and exclusively on GitHub, by using Jekyll, which is a static site generator, or by providing your own HTML pages.

Continuing our exploration of GitHub features, next comes the ability to visualize a repository's data. GitHub has implemented some nice features, such as graphs that can depict, among other things, the commit activity of the contributors and the traffic a repository gains, as well as the commit history in a network graph.

We will cover the following:

  • GitHub Pages
  • Web analytics
  • Tips and tricks

Let's dive in!