本书从Git的基本知识和操作方法入手,详细介绍了GitHub的各种功能,GitHub与其他工具或服务的协作,使用GitHub的开发流程以及如何将GitHub引入到企业中。在讲解GitHub的代表功能Pull Request时,本书专门搭建了供各位读者实践的仓库,邀请各位读者进行Pull Request并共同维护。
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【One-Line Pitch】
A hands-on, workflow-first introduction to Git and GitHub for developers and teams who want to move from "I have an account" to "we ship code through branches, pull requests, and review." Best for beginners and team leads planning to adopt GitHub in a real organization.
【Book Arc】
- **Opening (~0%–10%)**: Frames GitHub as a Git repository hosting service and a social coding platform, then walks through Git installation and the core command set — status, add, commit, diff, branch, merge, reset, rebase, remote, push, clone (Opening).
- **Early (~10%–30%)**: Account setup, SSH authentication, creating a first repository, and a tour of GitHub's collaboration surface: follow/watch, News Feed, Organizations, and GitHub Flavored Markdown (Early).
- **Middle (~30%–60%)**: Detailed feature reference — file operations, Blame/History, Issues with cross-linking and auto-close keywords, the Pull Request mechanism, Wiki, Graphs, Network, and repository Settings (Middle).
- **Late (~60%–80%)**: The practical heart: sending your first Pull Request against a shared practice repository, then receiving one as a maintainer — how to review, judge, and merge (Late).
- **Late (~80%–90%)**: Tooling and process — the `hub` CLI, Travis CI and Jenkins integration, and two team workflows: GitHub Flow and Git Flow, including a simulated Fizzbuzz exercise (Late).
- **Ending (~90%–100%)**: Enterprise adoption concerns — security, incident information, GitHub Enterprise evaluation — plus appendices on GUI clients and Gist for snippet sharing (Ending).
【Key Takeaways】
- **Git fundamentals come first, GitHub second** (Opening): the book deliberately teaches staging, committing, diffing, branching, and history rewriting before touching the web UI, so the platform's behavior makes sense rather than feeling like magic.
- **Feature branches keep the mainline clean** (Middle): work happens on topic branches and merges back with `--no-ff` so merge commits stay visible; master should always be in a state others can safely branch from.
- **Pull Request is the organizing unit of collaboration** (Middle): it is both a code-review request and a conversation thread; the book treats learning to send one as a required rite of passage, backed by a live practice repository readers contribute to.
- **Maintainers need a receiving discipline, not just a merge button** (Late): a dedicated chapter covers what to consider when a Pull Request arrives, how to judge it, and which operations to perform — the reviewer's side is treated as a distinct skill.
- **Small, frequent Pull Requests beat large ones** (Late): advice includes keeping PR size down, providing a staging environment for trial runs, avoiding too much feedback in one thread, and not letting PRs pile up.
- **Two workflows, two centers of gravity** (Late): GitHub Flow is lightweight and deployment-centric (merge then deploy immediately, with automated deployment and tests as prerequisites); Git Flow is release-centric and heavier — the book helps you choose rather than declaring one winner.
- **Automation is a precondition, not a bonus** (Late): CI via Travis CI or Jenkins and fully automated deployment are framed as requirements before a team can practice GitHub Flow properly.
- **Adoption is an organizational decision** (Ending): security posture, cost, scale thresholds, and GitHub Enterprise's trial period are discussed as real blockers, with the candid note that cost is the main obstacle for smaller organizations.
【Reading Tips】
- If you already use Git daily, skim Chapters 2–4 and start at the Pull Request chapters — that is where the book's distinctive value sits.
- Do the practice repository exercise rather than only reading it; the send-and-receive Pull Request pair is the book's core loop and reads thin without hands-on repetition.
- Treat the feature-reference chapter (Issues, Wiki, Graphs, Settings) as a lookup catalog on first pass, then revisit when your team actually needs each feature.
- Pay closest attention to the workflow chapter if you are the one introducing GitHub at work; the deployment and testing prerequisites are the parts teams most often skip.
- Note the publication era: version numbers and service details in the excerpts reflect the mid-2010s, so verify current pricing, CI integrations, and UI paths against live documentation.
【Coverage Limits】
The excerpts are heavily weighted toward tables of contents, front matter, and early Git command material; the Pull Request, workflow, and enterprise chapters are represented mainly by headings and fragments, so this guide's treatment of those sections is structural rather than detailed.
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Downloads 的向导下载安装包。本书使用的版本是 Git-1.8.4- preview20130916.exe。 安装包下载完毕后,只要双击运行,按照向导一步步安装即可。下 面我们对安装时的设定进行讲解。 A http://msysgit.github.io/ 3.2 实际动手使用 31 出现如下结果即为...
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ix typo"。 4.5 从远程仓库获取 65 和本地 master 分支相同。 推送至master 以外的分支 除了 master 分支之外,远程仓库也可以创建其他分支。举个例子,我 们在本地仓库中创建 feature-D 分支,并将它以同名形式 push 至远程仓库。 $ git checkout -b...
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该如何 发送等问题。 所以,本书将为各位创造一个亲自动手发送 Pull Request 的机会, 请各位不要错过。 6.1 Pull Request 的概要 ● 什么是 Pull Request 首先我们来理解什么是 Pull RequestA。Pull Request 是自己修改源代 码后,请求对方仓库采纳该修...
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s ● 概要 Jenkins 是代表性的持续集成服务器,下面我们来讲解如何让 Jenkins 与 GitHub 集成。 在这里,我们将把 GitHub 端仓库发来的 Pull Request 设置为触发 器,让系统自动进行测试,并将测试结果发送至 GitHub。通过这种方法 8.6 Jenkins 167 图...
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one. 进行 git flow 的初始设置 下面我们为 git flow 进行初始设置。由于我们不打算更改默认值, 所以在命令后附上 -d参数。执行以下命令后,仓库中会自动生成开发 流程所需的分支。各位在执行 git clone后请务必记得执行一次这个 命令。 $ cd blog $ git flow ini...
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on。 GitHub 从名字上看总让人误以为其只支持 Git,但实际上 Subversion 也可以使用GitHub。 $ svn checkout https://github.com/用户名 /仓库名 上述命令可以以 Subversion 仓库的形式将 GitHub 端的仓库 checkout,提交操作也可以...
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