Git in Practice

Appendix B. Creating a GitHub account and repository

GitHub is a website that provides Git repository hosting as well as issue trackers, Git-backed wikis, and a workflow to request a merge of the commits in a branch (which is known as a pull request and is discussed in section 10.1). You can create free accounts for public remote repositories, where everyone can see your code and commits. Typically these are used by open source projects, but they will also prove useful for your learning and experimentation.

As mentioned in chapter 2, there are free and paid alternatives to GitHub. I’ve picked GitHub to walk through because, at the time of writing, it’s the most popular hosted version control system for open source projects and is probably the ...