GitHub For Dummies (eBook)

Sarah Guthals, PhD is a social software engineer, entrepreneur, and former engineering manager at GitHub. She is coauthor of Helping Kids with Coding For Dummies. Phil Haack is a former engineering director at GitHub and senior program manager at Microsoft. He is author of a number of books on ASP.NET.

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with GitHub.com 5

Chapter 1: Understanding the Git in GitHub 7

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Collaborative Coding Environment 27

Part 2: Starting Your First Solo Project 39

Chapter 3: Introducing GitHub Repositories 41

Chapter 4: Setting Up a GitHub Website Repo 63

Chapter 5: Creating a Website with GitHub Pages 77

Part 3: Contributing to Your First Project 95

Chapter 6: Forking GitHub Repositories 97

Chapter 7: Writing and Committing Code 113

Chapter 8: Working with Pull Requests 133

Part 4: Manage and Contribute to Large Projects 153

Chapter 9: Exploring and Contributing to OSS 155

Chapter 10: Starting Your Own OSS 169

Chapter 11: Inner-Source Your Code on GitHub 189

Part 5: Make GitHub Work For You 209

Chapter 12: Collaborating Outside of GitHub 211

Chapter 13: GitHub Workflow Integrations 229

Chapter 14: Personalizing GitHub 251

Part 6: The GitHub Ecosystem 263

Chapter 15: Exploring the GitHub Marketplace 265

Chapter 16: GitHub and You 275

Chapter 17: Attending Events 285

Part 7: The Parts of Tens 295

Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Level Up on GitHub 297

Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Improve Your Development Workflow 309

Chapter 20: Ten Tips for Being an Effective Community Member 317

Index 325