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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

At the end of 2008, GitHub announced GitHub Pages (https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages), a static-site hosting service. Static sites have seen a significant increase over recent years, and GitHub played a big part in that. A static site is a site that contains pages written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No server code, such as PHP, Ruby, or Python, is included, nor is a database required.

In order to create a functional website hosted on GitHub Pages, you must follow some conventions. Let's look in detail at how to create any of these pages.

Creating a user or an organization page

For users and organizations, a repository named username.github.io must be created, where username is your username or organization...