Intro to Repository Management

Learn the basics of several GitHub features that can help support a collaborative, friendly, and healthy project.

• Who is this for: Developers with the need to start collaborating.
• What you’ll learn: The different ways to protect your repository’s content as more people join as collaborators.
• What you’ll build: You will prepare Mergington High School’s extracurricular activities website repository so additional teachers can safely collaborate.

Prerequisites:

• Skills exercise: Introduction to GitHub
• Skills exercise: Communicate using Markdown
• Skills exercise: Review pull requests
• How long: This exercise takes less than one hour to complete.

In this exercise, you will:

• Add a simple rulesets and configuration to restrict repository content.
• Communicate procedures to help guide collaborators.
• Assign responsibility of parts of the code to particular collaborators.
• Learn the difference between collaboration in a personal repository and organization repository.
• Establish ground rules to promote a health collaboration environment.
• Establish a process for managing security updates.

Share a link of your GitHub repo and a screenshot of your challenge completion!