Chapter 16
GitHub and You
IN THIS CHAPTER
Making the most of your profile
Understanding your contribution graph
Following people and starring repositories
GitHub is often described as a social network for developers. Throughout this book, I show you that GitHub is much more than a social network. It’s an essential set of tools for working on code together. Even so, the social network aspect is still an important part of GitHub. It may well be a key reason for its success. When GitHub was created, there were existing source control hosts. Pretty much all these hosts were focused around projects. GitHub turned this project-focus approach on its head and made people the focus. You can see it in the URL structure where every repository has the name of the user or organization before the repository name.
In this chapter, I dig into the social network aspect of GitHub. I look at how you represent yourself in this network and how you can get involved in the online community.
Understanding Your GitHub Profile
Every user on GitHub has a profile page. Figure 16-1 shows my profile at https://github.com/drguthals.
Your profile page represents you on GitHub. When you open an issue or submit ...
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