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GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub , Second Edition

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GitHub Essentials

Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning

In the previous chapter, we explored the main page of a repository and we covered the basics of its issue tracker.

GitHub also provides a wiki-style place to add your project's documentation. You can create as many pages as you like and also grant public access to it so that everyone can edit it.

In addition, when you are the creator of a product and have users that rely on it, you will want it to be as stable as possible. Versioning helps to maintain an achievable goal. GitHub provides the right tools to release versions of your code, which in reality are just snapshots in time. Whenever you believe your project is ready to go out into the wild, whether bugs are fixed or new features are added, you can use the releases feature and deliver versioned tarballs to the world.

After finishing this chapter, you will have learned...

Using the wiki

When you first create a new repository, a wiki attached to this project is also created. It is enabled by default and everyone can add new content or modify existing pages. If you want to change this behavior, you can refer to Chapter 6, Exploring the User and Repository Settings, which shows you how to accomplish this.

Why wikis are a nice place to document your project

Documentation is not to be taken lightly. To paraphrase a famous quote, with great projects comes great documentation.

Although there are many tools that convert markup files, such as Markdown to HTML, you may not want to use an external page to host your documentation. Enter GitHub wiki.

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Managing code versioning

In the world of software management, almost every piece of software is shipped with a version. It is a way to declare its evolution over time, usually with the addition of enhancements or bug fixes. GitHub leverages the power of Git and provides a simple interface to ship your versioned software.

Creating a release

In GitHub, the notion of a release is tightly tied to Git tags. You can see the existing tags, if any, from the same menu where you change a branch, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you visit the Releases page and there is no tag created yet, you will be prompted to create one. Creating a release will automatically create a tag.

Let's click on the Create a new release button...

Tips and tricks

Here is a tip to get notified about new releases in an atom feed. Also, while you familiarize yourself with Git, you'll be happy to know that you can edit a project's wiki locally.

Subscribing to new releases via atom feed

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned the importance of documentation and how GitHub allows you to host a Markdown-powered wiki along with every project. Creating, deleting, editing, and reverting pages should by now be familiar terms.

What is the connection between releases and tags, you ask? Well, if you read the second part of this chapter, you should already know what connects them and how to create releases and distribute them to the public.

In the next chapter, you will see the management of organizations and teams. Read on and learn how to harness the power of collaboration.

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Key benefits

  • • Effectively use GitHub by learning its key features to leverage the power of Git and make collaboration on code easy to work with.
  • • Be more productive on the development workflow of your projects using the valuable toolset that GitHub provides.
  • • Explore the world of GitHub by following simple, step-by-step, real-world scenarios accompanied by helpful, explanatory screenshots.

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for experienced or novice developers with a basic knowledge of Git. If you ever wanted to learn how big projects such as Twitter, Google, or even GitHub collaborate on code, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • • Create 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 using the sophisticated tools GitHub provides
  • • Create GitHub pages and understand web analytics

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Table of Contents

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Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Organizations and Teams Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
GitHub Pages and Web Analytics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring the User and Repository Settings Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I'm a tech writer that uses GitHub for taking developer's documentation and adapting to user documentation. I was looking for more information about pull requests, reviews, commenting, and so on. This book is geared towards the code and developing. It has a very small section on pull requests. Also, I didn't notice that this book is dated 2018, so out of date with the most recent version of GitHub.
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