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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)

Web analytics

Due to GitHub's nature, a repository contains a great deal of metadata, such as commits over time, who contributed what, the number of contributors, the number of forks, and even site referrals to various files.

GitHub provides some useful graphs and data, from which you can deduct the information you require under the Insights tab of a repository. Let's explore what's underneath.

Pulse

Pulse is an overview of a repository's activity. The default is to show the last week, but you can change the period from the drop-down menu on the right, by choosing 24 hours, 3 days, 1 week, or 1 month.

From here, you have a high-level overview of the merged and open pull requests, and open and closed issues...