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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)

Tips and tricks

Did you know that you can use different email addresses depending on the organization you are member of? Are you aware of how much disk space your repository takes? If no, read the following section, and learn how to perform these actions.

Finding the size of your repositories

If you are curious to know how big your repositories have become, you can visit https://github.com/settings/repositories and see it for yourself. Remember that GitHub also counts the size of the .git directory, so if you have thousands of commits, the repository's size will be greater than its actual size (by actual size, I mean whatever files you see on GitHub).

For example, the diaspora repository at the time of writing this book...