Sarah Guthals & Phil Haack 
GitHub For Dummies 

Code collaboratively with Git Hub

Once you’ve learned the basics of coding the next step is to start sharing your expertise, learning from other coding pros, or working as a collaborative member of development teams. Git Hub is the go-to community for facilitating coding collaboration, and Git Hub For Dummies is the next step on your journey as a developer.

Written by a Git Hub engineer, this book is packed with insight on how Git Hub works and how you can use it to become a more effective, efficient, and valuable member of any collaborative programming team.

* Store and share your work online with Git Hub

* Collaborate with others on your team or across the international coding community

* Embrace open-source values and processes

* Establish yourself as a valuable member of the Git Hub community

From setting up Git Hub on your desktop and launching your first project to cloning repositories, finding useful apps on the marketplace, and improving workflow, Git Hub For Dummies covers the essentials the novice programmer needs to enhance collaboration and teamwork with this industry-standard tool.

Table of Content

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Git Hub.com 5

Chapter 1: Understanding the Git in Git Hub 7

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Collaborative Coding Environment 27

Part 2: Starting Your First Solo Project 39

Chapter 3: Introducing Git Hub Repositories 41

Chapter 4: Setting Up a Git Hub Website Repo 63

Chapter 5: Creating a Website with Git Hub Pages 77

Part 3: Contributing to Your First Project 95

Chapter 6: Forking Git Hub 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 Git Hub 189

Part 5: Make Git Hub Work For You 209

Chapter 12: Collaborating Outside of Git Hub 211

Chapter 13: Git Hub Workflow Integrations 229

Chapter 14: Personalizing Git Hub 251

Part 6: The Git Hub Ecosystem 263

Chapter 15: Exploring the Git Hub Marketplace 265

Chapter 16: Git Hub and You 275

Chapter 17: Attending Events 285

Part 7: The Parts of Tens 295

Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Level Up on Git Hub 297

Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Improve Your Development Workflow 309

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

Index 325

About the author

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