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<h1 style="text-align: center;">github - overview</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;github - is a source code hosting repository, in addition to hosting your own source code(publicly or privately) you can view/contribute to other 'open source'&nbsp;software projects, hosted on this service.</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li><strong>] repositories (repos)</strong></li>
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<li>x] a directory name that will host all of the data related to a particular project, project data includes source code files, documentation, issues, pull requests, ....</li>
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<li><strong>] forks</strong></li>
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<li>] fork a project to create 'your own version' of another open source project - hosted on github, ] your version for your reason(s), ] you can push your changes back to the root project, ]</li>
<li>] <a href="http://zbowling.github.io/blog/2011/11/25/github/" target="_blank">article</a>&nbsp;- explaining some of the problems with githubs forking functionality and alternate strategies (aka bitbucket )</li>
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<li><strong>] branches</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] stars</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] statistics</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] issues</strong></li>
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<li>] log problems, feature requests, fixes, etc by opening an issue on the project</li>
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<li><strong>] pull requests</strong></li>
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<li>] another user has submitted changes/updates to the project, project owner has to merge request into master</li>
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<li><strong>] EDIT files @github using&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] using&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] FEATURE git pages</strong></li>
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<li>] host web site projects, can demo functionality of your web project right on git(no need to self host)</li>
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<li><strong>] FEATURE git gist</strong></li>
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<li>] host code snippets</li>
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<h2>[WHY NOT]</h2>
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<li>] bitbucket -</li>
<li>] gitlab -&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] # # - CREATE-article# # (this)</li>
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<h2>[RELATED]</h2>
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<li><strong>x] created my account on github</strong></li>
<li><strong></strong>x]&nbsp;SET&nbsp; another email as my primary email</li>
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