Learning GitHub

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction And Course Overview

Prerequisites

Basics

Setting Up Your GitHub Account

Tuning Your Profile

GitHub Glossary

Creating A Repo

Forking A Repo

The GitHub Workflow

Presentation Of The Workflow

What Is In A Repo?

Key Terms

Forking A Repo

Authoring Commits

Creating And Managing Branches

Pull Requests

Workflow Review

Beyond The Site - Using The Cli And Desktop Apps

Key Terms

Getting A Regular Git Cli

Committing And Sending To GitHub

Using The Hub Cli Tool

Using the Hub Cli With The Desktop Apps

Good Resources For Learning Git

Cli Review

GitHub-Flavored Markdown

Markdown Basics

Images In Markdown

Lists And Tables

At Mentions

In-Repo Links

Auto-Linking

Fenced Code Blocks

Emojis

Task Lists

Markdown Review

Searching GitHub

Scopes - GitHub, Single-Repo, Code, Issues, Users, Etc

Advanced Searches

File Finder

Staying On Top Of Things

Key Terms

Subscribing, Unsubscribing And Auto-Subscriptions

Watching Repositories And Following People

Tuning Notification Sources, Delivery Methods And Target E-Mails

Managing Issues And Fixes

Key Terms

Issues

Triaging, Filtering Issues And PRs With Labels

Grouping Issues And PRs With Milestones

Tags And Releases

Issues And Fixes Review

GitHub Security

General Security Precautions

Protocols To Access Your Repos

Sudo Mode

Reviewing Your Security Log

About Passwords And Passphrases

Blocking And Unblocking Users

Repository Management

Key Terms

Switching Visibility

Renaming, Transferring, Deleting And Archiving

Quotas, Large Files And LFS

Non-Code Files

Collaborators And Permission Levels

Repository Management Review

GitHub At Your Fingertips

Keyboard Shortcuts

Gists

Authoring And Updating - Public Versus Private

Forking And Cloning Gists

bl.ocks And 5minfork

Being Social And Collaborative

Starring Repos

Watching Repositories And Following People

Choosing Licenses

Providing A Guide To Contributing

Writing A Great README

Creating A Great Wiki

Being Social And Collaborative Review

Introduction

Introduction And About The Author

GitHub Pages

Introduction And Key Terms

The Quick Way: The Generator

Going Manual With Jekyll - Part 1

Going Manual With Jekyll - Part 2

Metadata

Sitemaps, Feeds, And Redirects

Custom 404 Pages

Custom Domains

Misc: Emojis, @mentions, Unpublishing, Troubleshooting, etc.

What We Have Learned

Wizard tricks

URL-Only Filters And Display Tweaking

URL-Only Features

Gist Secrets

Keyboard-Only Features

GitHub Remote URL Tricks

Git.io

Integrating With External Services

Key Terms

Issue Tracking

Continuous Integration

Test Coverage And Quality Metrics

Chat Rooms

Dependency Monitoring

Webhooks

Showing Off Your Chops With Service Badges

What We Have Learned

Using The GitHub API

Introduction

First Principles: HTTPS, REST, JSON, And Hypermedia

Gaining Access And Authenticating - Part 1

Gaining Access And Authenticating - Part 2

The Main Areas Of The API

Example 1: Monitoring The Activity Of A Repo

Example 2: Automatically Creating A Gist

Example 3: Turning An Issue Into A Pull Request

Using Wrapper Libraries

What We Have Learned

Advanced Account Management

Key Terms

Multiple E-mails And Keys

Changing Your Username

Merging Accounts

Creating And Populating Organizations

Teams

Organization Security

Organization Miscellanea

Billing And Payments

Conclusion

Wrap Up