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A lap around GitHub

A lap around GitHub

- [Instructor] As a registered user, now we are ready to explore the most important feature of GitHub. This is the best way to understand how it works and the reason why GitHub has become so popular among developers. So let's navigate with our browser to a repository like github.com/microsoft/vscode. This is one of the best example to explore the most important feature on the portal because this repository is big enough, at the same time, it's one of the best example regarding the best practice to use on GitHub for a successful process. By default the first page of the repository is the code tab. Here you can see the list of files and folders of the project. These files are the real files of the project and may contain the source code, the documentation, the assets, and all the important files of your project. From this view, I can click on a folder for instance and navigate inside the folder. And from here I can see the…

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