Welcome to the test_git project!

This is a place where we try with github features and see if it can be useful for our work as version controlling and collaborative coding tool

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1. What Is GitHub?

GitHub is a website and cloud-based service that assists developers in storing and managing code, as well as tracking and controlling changes to their code.

2. What Is Version Control?

The method of recording and controlling changes to software code is known as version control, often known as source control. Version control systems (VCS) are software tools that assist software development teams in managing changes to source code over time.

3. What Is Git?

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system that can handle projects of any size, from little to very large, with speed and efficiency.

What are GitHub’s Features?

1. Easy Project Management

GitHub is a place where project managers and developers come together to coordinate, track, and update their work so that projects are transparent and stay on schedule.

2. Increased Safety With Packages

Packages can be published privately, within the team, or publicly to the open-source community. The packages can be used or reused by downloading them from GitHub.

3. Effective Team Management

GitHub helps all the team members stay on the same page and organized. Moderation tools like Issue and Pull Request Locking help the team to focus on the code.

4. Improved Code Writing

Pull requests help the organizations to review, develop, and propose new code. Team members can discuss any implementations and proposals through these before changing the source code.

5. Increased Code Safety

GitHub uses dedicated tools to identify and analyze vulnerabilities to the code that other tools tend to miss. Development teams everywhere work together to secure the software supply chain, from start to finish.

6. Easy Code Hosting

All the code and documentation are in one place. There are millions of repositories on GitHub, and each repository has its own tools to help you host and release code.

So How Do You Get Started With GitHub?

It’s easy to get things going with GitHub. For starters, click onto the GitHub site and create an account. Then, consider installing Git on your system, especially if you plan on using your local computer. Then, go to your terminal and make yourself known to Git by setting up your user name in every repository. Use this command:

git config --global user.name "<your_name_here>"

Make sure the “your name here” parameter is your own name. Pick any name you’d like.

Next, share your email address with Git. It should be the same address you entered when you joined GitHub.

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

You’re now ready to use Git!

How Do You Use Git and GitHub?

Here’s a very broad overview of the steps you need to use both Git and GitHub. You can find more details regarding the specific commands and syntax here on opensource.com.

Create your GitHub account, which you should have already done, thanks to the previous section! Create a repository or “repo” for short. This is where you store your code. Build a file. Make a commit. Whenever you create a file or change it, you create a Git commit to store the new version. Connect your repo with your computer system.

4. How much does GitHub cost?

With GitHub Free for personal accounts, you may collaborate with an infinite number of people on an unlimited number of public repositories with a full feature set and an unlimited number of private repositories with a limited feature set. The Team plan on Github starts at $44 per user per year.

5. What is GitHub's best feature?

The best feature of Github is that it allows developers from all around the world to collaborate. Open-source solutions, such as GitHub, allow potential developers to participate and share their knowledge for the benefit of the worldwide community.

6. Who uses GitHub?

Github is used by developers, programming instructors, students, and businesses all across the world to host millions of open source projects and facilitate structured collaboration on a single platform. It is a collaborative web-based platform with version control systems that allows for more effective software development.

7. What is GitHub used for?

GitHub is a platform for hosting code that allows for version control and collaboration. It allows you and others to collaborate on projects from anywhere. This lesson will teach you the fundamentals of GitHub, such as repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests.

8. Is GitHub free?

With GitHub Free for personal accounts, you may collaborate with an infinite number of people on an unlimited number of public repositories with a full feature set and an unlimited number of private repositories with a limited feature set.

9. How to use Github?

Github can be used via creating and maintaining a repository, beginning and managing a new branch, making changes to a file and committing them to GitHub, and opening and merging a pull request.

Wrapping It Up

We hope this article has helped you understand GitHub’s relevance. You learned the basics of a version control system and how Git works. We explored why GitHub’s features make it such a vital resource, then wrapped up by listing GitHub’s alternatives and competition.

For more information, check this video, which goes into more detail about what is GitHub and the many ways you can use it.

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