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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)

Organization settings

So far, we have only explored the Member privileges setting. Let's see the rest of them by heading over to the Settings page of an organization.

Profile

From the profile page, you can change the organization's name and its description, add a URL and a profile picture, rename the organization namespace, and even delete it:

After making all of these changes, you can see that the landing page of your organization will be a little bit prettier:

Security

Under the Security tab you can require all the member of the organization to enable two...