Chapter 3
Introducing GitHub Repositories
IN THIS CHAPTER
Touring a repository
Creating a Hello World repository
Exploring repository issues, pull requests, and project boards
Almost everything on GitHub.com revolves around a repository.
In this chapter, you find out how you can set up a repository, interact with it, and create project boards and issues. The repository that you set up in this chapter is a special kind of repository. The functionality of the repository is the same, except that this repository is named the same as your GitHub username, which makes it automatically appear on your GitHub public profile, such as mine at https://github.com/drguthals. Adding information to your public profile acts as a cover page for your software profile, gives you control over how people understand who you are and what you do, and helps enable trust when you are contributing to open source projects.
Setting Up a Repository
A GitHub repository (or repo) is a folder with all the files needed for your project, including the files that track all the versions of your project so that you can revert any mistakes you make. A repository on GitHub also tracks who can collaborate and how.
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