Refresher on GitHub Concepts

Intermediate GitHub Concepts

Arne Jonas Warnke

Content Lead for ML- and Data Engineering at DataCamp

Your instructors

Arne Warnke

Head of Emerging Curriculum

Stan Konkin

ML Content Developer

Course overview

 

• 📋 GitHub Projects

 

• 🔧 Admin & authentication

 

• 🔒 InnerSource & security

Repositories

 

• 📁 A repository (repo) stores and manages project files

 

• 🔒 Can be private or public

 

• 📝 Includes a README.md file with a project description

 

Branches

 

• 🌿 Let teams work on tasks without affecting the main code

 

• 🌟 The main branch (master) has the live version

 

• 🐛 Other branches are for bug fixes and extensions

Screenshot of the ecommerce repo:

Issues

 

• 📌 Track problems

 

• 📝 Plan tasks and updates

 

• 💬 Manage and discuss project details

Pull requests and reviews

 

Pull Requests

• 🖊 Propose changes

 

• 💬 Review and discuss before merging

 

Reviews

• 🛠 Ensure code quality

 

• ✅ Approve or request changes

 

• 🔒 Only reviewed code gets merged

Merges

 

• 🔀 Merge pull requests to integrate changes

 

• ✅ Finalize review by combining new and existing code

 

Let's practice!

Intermediate GitHub Concepts