2_components_of_github.md

Components of GitHub

Users

• individual person

• users can own repositories

• can have multiple emails (work, play)

• appear throughout the site

Organizations

• group many users together

• are administered by users (similar to facebook users)

• can own repositories

• contains teams (if you want)

Issues

• suggested improvements, tasks, action items

• created by users, closed by admins, moderators or other users depending on permissions

• contain their own discussion forum

• grouped by tags and milestones

• referred to as "tickets" in other systems

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Forking

• personal copy of anothers user’s repository

• lives as a repository in your account

• can make changes without effecting the original

• can be public or private

• used to submit a pull request

Pull Request

• Pull Request

• proposed change to the repository

• contains who changes what when

• submitted by a user, accepted by an admin

• provide a discussion forum

• generally tied to issues

WIKIs

• generally used for repository documentation

• anyone can edit

• who made what change when

• public or private

GitHub Pages

• free web hosting for static sites

• push to a special branch

• all files available as a web page

• automagically fires the Jekyll templating engine

• everything still versioned in Git

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