Ebook: GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub, 2nd Edition

Get up to speed with effectively using GitHub for collaborating and working on your software projects

Key Features

• Explore GitHub's key features to leverage the power of Git and simplify collaboration on code
• Manage the development workflow of your projects efficiently by using the GitHub toolset
• Gain comprehensive insights into GitHub with the help of real-world scenarios, and explanatory screenshots

Book Description

Whether you're an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with version control systems is a must in the software development domain. Git is the most popular tool for this purpose, and GitHub was built around it, making its capabilities available on the web.

You'll start with the basics of creating a repository, before moving on to learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussions about your project take place. As you progress, you'll get up to speed with using GitHub's built-in wiki and writing rich documentation. You will also understand organization and team management and even explore some of GitHub's most popular features, including pull requests. Next, you'll get to grips with creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub. Finally, you'll discover settings that are configurable for both a user and a repository.

By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to efficiently collaborate and work on software projects using GitHub.

What you will learn

• Develop and upload repositories to your account
• Create organizations and manage teams with different access levels on repositories
• Use the issue tracker effectively and add context to issues with labels and milestones
• Create, access, and personalize your user account and profile settings
• Build a community around your project by using GitHub's sophisticated tools
• Learn how to createGitHub pages and understand web analytics

Who This Book Is For

This book is for experienced or novice developers with basic knowledge of Git. You'll also find this book helpful if you want to understand how big projects such as Twitter, Google, or even GitHub collaborate on code.

Table of Contents

1. Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker
2. Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning
3. Managing Organizations and Teams
4. Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow
5. GitHub Pages and Web Analytics
6. Exploring the User and Repository Settings