GitHub

Now we're going to look at one of the most popular Git hosting platforms in the world: GitHub. It's very popular and getting to understand GitHub means you'll know how most of the other options work too. Options like GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc. are platforms that despite having a different feature set and different interfaces, operate much in the same manner and the underlaying technology, and how you use it, stays much the same.

Curated Materials

GitHub is split into two key services (that we care about):

1. GitHub as a repository hosting
2. GitHub Actions, it's CI/CD solution

We're going to provide materials that will go over both of these services, starting with simple GitHub repository hosting.

Luckily for us, GitHub themselves provide some excellent documentation.

Git Hosting

You know how-to create Git repositories locally, but that repository gains super powers when hosted remotely. Let's learn how-to do that first.

Work your way through the following resources.

• Getting started with your GitHub account

• Setting your username in (local) Git

• Setting your commit email address (locally)

Now comes the more complex part - authenticating with GitHub. We prefer using SSH because we've already covered that in "Stage One - System Administration - SSH", and SSH is very common in the "wild", but HTTPS is a thing too, so what we actually suggest you do is study both.

The following link covers all options - SSH and HTTPS - and we suggest you go over both sections, including the links on "Cloning with HTTPS urls", "Caching your GitHub credentials in Git", etc.

• Authenticating with GitHub from Git

Finally, we can start using GitHub with a fully configured, authenticated local Git client. That means we can create repositories and start using them. Head over to their "Hello World" quick-start guide (link below) and work through it, starting with "Creating a Repository":

• Quick Start - Creating a Repository (and then keep going through this page)

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Challenges