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GitHub Essentials

GitHub Essentials

By : Achilleas Pipinellis
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GitHub Essentials

GitHub Essentials

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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.
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Creating an organization

In order to create an organization, find the cross button at the top header next to your avatar or visit https://github.com/organizations/new directly.

On the next screen, pick up an organization name and fill in a billing e-mail. For testing purposes, you can give your personal e-mail, which you can change later if you want. For open source projects, the creation of an organization is free, which is the default plan. If the organization will be owned by a business, you'll have to accept the corporate terms of service. All these options are summarized in the following screenshot:

As you type the name, GitHub searches behind the scenes if it is already taken, and if that is the case, a message appears saying that Username is already taken.

As you will notice, there cannot be a user and an organization with the same name. Namespaces must be unique...

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