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Introducing GitHub : a non-technical guide / Peter Bell and Brent Beer ; cover designer, Karen Montgomery ; illustrator, Rebecca Demarest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Peter (Computer software developer), author.
- Beer, Brent, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Application software--Development.
- Application software.
- Computer software--Development.
- Computer software.
- Open source software.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- 2014.
- Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- If you’re new to GitHub, this concise book shows you just what you need to get started and no more. It’s perfect for project and product managers, stakeholders, and other team members who want to collaborate on a development project—whether it’s to review and comment on work in progress or to contribute specific changes. It’s also great for developers just learning GitHub.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- What Is Git?
- What Is GitHub?
- Why Use Git?
- Why Use GitHub?
- Key Concepts
- 2. Viewing
- Introducing the Project Page
- Viewing the README.md File
- Viewing the Commit History
- Viewing Pull Requests
- Viewing Issues
- Viewing the Pulse
- Viewing GitHub Graphs
- The Contributors Graph
- The Commits Graph
- The Code Frequency Graph
- The Punch Card Graph
- The Network Graph
- The Members List
- The Traffic Graph
- 3. Editing
- Contributing via a Fork
- Adding a File
- Creating a Pull Request
- Editing a File
- Renaming or Moving a File
- Working with Folders
- Creating a Folder
- Renaming a Folder
- The Limits of Editing on GitHub
- 4. Collaboration
- Committing to a Branch
- Creating a Pull Request from a Branch
- Collaborating on Pull Requests
- Involving People with Pull Requests
- Reviewing Pull Requests
- Commenting on Pull Requests
- Adding Color to Comments
- Contributing to Pull Requests
- Testing a Pull Request
- Merging a Pull Request
- Who Should Merge a Pull Request?
- Pull Request Notifications
- Best Practices for Pull Requests
- Issues
- Creating a New Issue
- Managing Milestones for Issues
- Managing Labels for Issues
- Commenting on Issues
- Referencing Issues in a Commit
- Best Practices for Issues
- Wikis
- Getting Started with a Wiki
- Adding and Linking to a Page on Your Wiki
- GitHub Pages
- Creating a Website for Your Project
- Creating a Website for Yourself or Your Organization
- 5. Creating and Configuring
- Creating a Repository
- Adding Collaborators
- Configuring a Repository
- Integrating with Other Systems
- Personal Versus Organizational
- Creating an Organization
- Managing Teams
- 6. Downloading
- Why Clone a Repository?
- GitHub for Mac
- Making a Commit Using GitHub for Mac
- Viewing Changes in GitHub for Mac
- GitHub for Windows
- Making a Commit Using GitHub for Windows
- Configuring Command-Line Tools in GitHub for Windows
- 7. Next Steps.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781491949825
- 1491949821
- 9781491949801
- 1491949805
- 9781491949832
- 149194983X
- OCLC:
- 896723204
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