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GitHub Essentials

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789138337

Length 178 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Achilleas Pipinellis

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker FREE CHAPTER

2. Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning

3. Managing Organizations and Teams

4. Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow

5. GitHub Pages and Web Analytics

6. Exploring the User and Repository Settings

7. Other Books You May Enjoy

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User settings

You can visit your user's settings page by navigating through the web interface (under your avatar's drop-down list) or by visiting https://github.com/settings/profile directly:

For example, here is what my settings landing page looks like:

We are going to analyze the most important settings GitHub provides.

Profile

Under Personal settings, you can see various options that you can customize to your liking.

The Profile settings is where you can fill in your personal information so that people know who you are. Consider it like socialization. After all, GitHub is the Facebook of geeks.

All the profile information is optional to fill in. You can see what this will look like by visiting your username...

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Authors (1)

Achilleas Pipinellis

Achilleas Pipinellis

<p>Achilleas Pipinellis is an open source enthusiast and tries to get involved in as many projects as possible. He was introduced to Linux almost 10 years ago and haven't looked back since. His distribution of choice is Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible system that adheres to the KISS philosophy. He likes trying new technologies, especially those that require some sort of special deployment. He also enjoys writing technical guides and articles that help people learn new stuff and strongly believes that comprehensive documentation is essential to a project's growth and recognition.</p>

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