GitHub

Concepts

GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration or respectively an online Git repository. The advantages are:

• backup
• shareability
• web interface

File extension .md for the standard readme file is for the Markdown syntax.

• master (production) (branch)
• feature branch
• merge (feature branch into master)

Pull Requests

Pull requests are requests to others to review and pull a change in a branch to the master (branch) or any other branch.