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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)

User settings

You can visit your user's settings page by navigating through the web interface (under your avatar's drop-down list) or by visiting https://github.com/settings/profile directly:

For example, here is what my settings landing page looks like:

We are going to analyze the most important settings GitHub provides.

Profile

Under Personal settings, you can see various options that you can customize to your liking.

The Profile settings is where you can fill in your personal information so that people know who you are. Consider it like socialization. After all, GitHub is the Facebook of geeks.

All the profile information is optional to fill in. You can see what this will look like by visiting your username...