How to use github

What is GitHub?

gitHub is a hosting platform for open source and private software projects. Because it only supports git as the only version library format for hosting, it is named gitHub.

How to use github?

1. First go to GitHub official website "https://github.com" to register a "Sign Up" account.

You need to fill in your user name, email address, and password. The best name is your commonly used user name in the future.

There are two types of GitHub, one is public, which is free, that is, the project you create is open and can be seen by everyone; the other is private, which is paid. Many companies generally use GitHub's private warehouses to host their own projects. This is also a profit model of GitHub. For individuals, you can just choose the public one by default.

After a new user successfully registers, he will not have his own projects or people to follow, so he will only have one navigation bar.

The navigation bar, from left to right, is the GitHub home button, search box, PR, Issues, Gist (these concepts will be discussed later), message reminder, create project button, and my account related. My Timeline, you can think of this part as Weibo, that is, the activities of some people you follow will appear here. My Projects, if you create a project, you can quickly access it. Click the Your profile menu in the picture below to enter your personal GitHub homepage.

2. Set up and improve your GitHub

Go to the settings page to set some basic information:

3. Create your own project

Click on the top navigation bar to quickly create a project. To create a project, you need to fill in the following parts: project name, project description and brief introduction. You cannot choose private without paying, so you can only choose public, and then check Select "Initialize this repository with a README" and you have your first GitHub project.

You can see that this project only contains a README.md file, but it is already a complete Git warehouse. You can perform some operations on it, such as watch, star, fork, and clone. Or download it.

Let me mention here that README.md, all detailed introductions to the project on GitHub and the Wiki are all based on Markdown. This is even the case when building a blog on GitHub and writing a blog, so if you still don’t understand Markdown syntax , it is recommended to study it first.

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