GitHub Tutorial

Creating a GitHub Account

• Head over to https://github.com/join  to create your account

• Your username will be visible to everyone and can be changed later on

• If you are a current student, make sure to grab your GitHub Student Developer Pack. This gives you a bunch of access to development tools like the JetBrains IDEs, Heroku, Unity, and even a free domain for you website!

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Profile

• This is essentially the front page of your portfolio and also where you can access your repositories

• You can also customize your pinned repositories to showcase your best work!

Repositories

• A directory where your project files are stored, commonly referred to as a "repo"

• For example, this is our 2020-SPICA-Flight Computer repository which contains the files that everyone on the avionics team has been working on:

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• This is also where you can view all the previous changes (commits), issues, and pull requests relating to the repository

Issues

• The Issue tab can be used to keep track of bugs and future enhancement ideas

• You can also apply labels to them for easy reading!
  
  

Pull Requests

• Probably one of the most important features when working with other developers

• It is used for code review and you can assign teammates to review your code before merging it to another branch

• You can also see the comparison between the two branches to view the changes