Introducing GitHub: A Non-Technical Guide

Introducing GitHub: A Non-Technical Guide

by PeterBell (Author), Brent Beer (Author)

Synopsis

If you're new to GitHub, this concise book shows you just what you need to get started and no more. It's perfect for project and product managers, stakeholders, and other team members who want to collaborate on a development project - whether it's to review and comment on work in progress or to contribute specific changes. It's also great for developers just learning GitHub. GitHub has rapidly become the default platform for software development, but it's also ideal for other text-based documents, from contracts to screenplays. This hands-on book shows you how to use GitHub's web interface to view projects and collaborate effectively with your team. Learn how and why people use GitHub to collaborate View the status of a project - recent changes, outstanding work, and historic changes Create and edit files through GitHub without learning Git Suggest changes to projects you don't have permission to edit directly Use tools like issues, pull requests, and branches to specify and collaborate on changes Create a new GitHub repository to control who has access to your project

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 142
Edition: 1
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 01 Dec 2014

ISBN 10: 1491949740
ISBN 13: 9781491949740

Author Bio
Peter Bell is a contract member of the GitHub training team, the founder and CTO of speakgeek.co and develops curriculum and provides enterprise training on a range of technical topics including lean product development, NoSQL data stores and devOps. He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, QCon NY, QCon SF, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, GraphConnect, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, the Open Source Journal, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag.