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👋 Welcome to GitHub Learning Lab's "Introduction to GitHub"
To get started, I’ll guide you through some important first steps in coding and collaborating on GitHub.
👇 This arrow means you can expand the window! Click on them throughout the course to find more information.
What is GitHub?
What is GitHub?
I'm glad you asked! Many people come to GitHub because they want to contribute to open source 📖 projects, or they're invited by teammates or classmates who use it for their projects. Why do people use GitHub for these projects?
At its heart, GitHub is a collaboration platform.
From software to legal documents, you can count on GitHub to help you do your best work with the collaboration and security tools your team needs. With GitHub, you can keep projects completely private, invite the world to collaborate, and streamline every step of your project.
GitHub is also a powerful version control tool.
GitHub uses Git 📖, the most popular open source version control software, to track every contribution and contributor 📖 to your project--so you know exactly where every line of code came from.
GitHub helps people do much more.
GitHub is used to build some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you're visualizing data or building a new game, there's a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can get you to the next step. This course starts with the basics, but we'll dig into the rest later!
📺 Video: What is GitHub?
Exploring a GitHub repository
Exploring a GitHub repository
📺 Video: Exploring a repository
More features
The video covered some of the most commonly-used features. Here are a few other items you can find in GitHub repositories:
Special Files
In the video you learned about a special file called the README.md. Here are a few other special files you can add to your repositories:
CONTRIBUTING.md
is used to describe the process for contributing to the repository. A link to theCONTRIBUTING.md
file is shown anytime someone creates a new issue or pull request.ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
is another file you can use to pre-populate the body of an issue. For example, if you always need the same types of information for bug reports, include it in the issue template, and every new issue will be opened with your recommended starter text.Using issues
This is an issue 📖: a place where you can have conversations about bugs in your code, code review, and just about anything else.
Issue titles are like email subject lines. They tell your collaborators what the issue is about at a glance. For example, the title of this issue is Getting Started with GitHub.
Using GitHub Issues
Using GitHub issues
Issues are used to discuss ideas, enhancements, tasks, and bugs. They make collaboration easier by:
📺 Video: Using issues
Managing notifications
Managing notifications
📺 Video: Watching, notifications, stars, and explore
Once you've commented on an issue or pull request, you'll start receiving email notifications when there's activity in the thread.
How to silence or unmute specific conversations
You'll see a short description that explains your current notification status.
How to customize notifications in Settings
Repository notification options
How to review notifications for the repositories you're watching
Keep reading below to find your first task
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