GitHub
GitHub is a web-based platform for hosting Git repositories and supporting collaborative software development.
Practical Automation with PowerShell: Effective scripting from the console to the cloud
GitHub is a web platform for hosting, collaborating on, and distributing software source code through version-controlled repositories.
- How it is used
- Shares and maintains team PowerShell modules through a remote, version-controlled codebase.
- How deep it goes
- Walks through repository initialization, staging, committing, remote creation, and pushing rather than Git internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates publishing and synchronizing a private PoshAutomator module containing Get-SystemInfo.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure a private GitHub repository by committing a local PowerShell module and pushing its main branch.
Lead Developer Career Guide
GitHub is a web platform for hosting, versioning, reviewing, and collaborating on software repositories.
- How it is used
- Uses GitHub to find open-source projects, collaborate, review code, and demonstrate workplace-ready development skills.
- How deep it goes
- Explains GitHub as a collaboration platform and gives contribution steps, but stops short of technical implementation details.
- Examples
- Uses public repositories, bug reports, code changes, pull requests, libraries, frameworks, and small starter tasks.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via GitHub by selecting a project, reading documentation, contacting maintainers, and contributing a manageable change.
GitHub Actions in Action: Continuous integration and delivery for DevOps
GitHub.com is GitHub's publicly hosted software development and collaboration platform.
- How it is used
- Coordinates repository collaboration and provides the foundation for GitHub Actions workflow automation.
- How deep it goes
- Explains Git’s distributed snapshot model and outlines platform capabilities, APIs, hosting, and pricing without detailing API implementation.
- Examples
- Uses CI, CD, and custom automation tasks as GitHub Actions workflow scenarios.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via GitHub Actions to automate CI/CD and custom repository workflows while considering tier limits.
Read how GitHub Actions in Action: Continuous integration and delivery for DevOps explains GitHub →
Effective Platform Engineering
GitHub is a hosted platform for version control, collaborative software development, and repository-based project management.
- How it is used
- Provides organizational identity, team-based access management, and integration points for an internal engineering platform.
- How deep it goes
- Explains organization and team setup, credentials, integrations, and authorization flow, while deferring complete identity-provider implementation.
- Examples
- Uses a GitHub organization, platform-team team, signed commits, CircleCI integration, and team-driven infrastructure access.
- What you can do after
- Configure organizations and teams, secure developer access, and connect team membership to SaaS and platform permissions.
Road to Kubernetes
GitHub is a web-based platform for hosting, collaborating on, and managing software repositories with version control.
- How it is used
- Stores application code remotely and provides the foundation for sharing changes and triggering deployment automation.
- How deep it goes
- Explains account creation, repository setup, and pushing existing code, while deferring broader GitHub features and automation details.
- Examples
- Uses separate repositories for recurring Python and JavaScript web applications.
- What you can do after
- Operate Git and GitHub to create repositories and push existing application code for remote storage and sharing.
"Looks Good to Me"
A web platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on software development, including pull-request workflows.
- How it is used
- Supports unified Git code management and built-in pull-request workflows for collaborative code review.
- How deep it goes
- Defines GitHub’s review role and compares practical trade-offs, but stops short of detailed workflow instructions.
- Examples
- Uses built-in pull requests and a comparison table covering GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit, and Crucible.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate GitHub against team requirements when selecting a code-review and repository-management tool.
100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
GitHub is a hosted software-development platform for storing Git repositories and collaborating on code changes.
- How it is used
- Stores application code centrally and supports collaborative development, recovery, rollback, and controlled merging.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates repository setup and branching but stops short of detailed conflict resolution or deployment workflows.
- Examples
- Uses the MagicChoc recovery failure, a SQL Server Database project, and Visual Studio’s Git Changes workflow.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure GitHub by creating a repository, applying a gitignore template, creating branches, and preparing changes for merging.
Read how 100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them explains GitHub →
Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition: Write and organize scripts and tools
GitHub is an online platform for hosting, sharing, and collaboratively managing software repositories.
- How it is used
- Connects local Git projects to hosted repositories for sharing, backup, and collaboration.
- How deep it goes
- Explains repository creation, remote configuration, pushing, fetching, pulling, and cloning, but defers advanced pull-request workflows.
- Examples
- Uses the MyPSTool repository, remote commands, status output, push results, and cloning a SharePoint tools repository.
- What you can do after
- Operate GitHub through Git commands to publish, synchronize, and clone software repositories.
Related concepts
- repositoryuses · A software repository is an organized storage location or collection of project files and related artifacts, often managed with version history and change tracking.
- gituses · Git is a distributed version-control system that records changes to files and supports managing project history and collaboration across repositories.
- versioninguses · The practice of identifying and managing successive revisions of files, data, models, interfaces, or other artifacts so changes can be tracked and earlier states recovered.
- pull requestuses · A pull request is a version-control proposal to integrate changes from one branch or repository into another, typically supporting review and discussion before merging.
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