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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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Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138337
Length 178 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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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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