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GitHub Essentials

You're reading from   GitHub Essentials Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138337
Length 178 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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The difference between users and organizations

Apart from your user account that should be used only by yourself, GitHub provides the ability to create organizations managed by many users and, as we will see later, create teams within the organization.

GitHub is a collaborative place and as such, projects with high contribution traffic need a handful of people to help with the maintenance.

This might not be the only reason why one should create an organization, though. Leaving aside the practical reasons, an organization is usually created when there is more than one person, each having equal rights to the projects that the organization will host.

You can see, for example, big names such as Twitter, Google, or even GitHub itself that have organizations under which dozens of projects are hosted.

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