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Now that we've got our account setup,

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let's talk about some of
the key features and explore.

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A repository is the most
basic element of GitHub,

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it's easiest to imagine
as a projects folder.

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Unlike an ordinary
folder on your computer,

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a GitHub repository offers simple, but
powerful tools for working on a project.

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Our repository contains all the project
files, including documentation and

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stores the history of each file.

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Whether you're working by yourself,
exploring open source projects or

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getting in started and

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contributing to a project, knowing your
way around a repository is essential.

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By navigating to github.com/explore,
we can browse through popular repositories

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organized around interesting topics or
by what's trending.

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We can also just search by keywords,
languages or

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if we know what we're looking for,
a project or username.

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I heard about a really neat open source
project from a friend, git-it, so

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let's check that out.

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In the search bar, I'll type in git-it.

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Looks like that's set
in the search results.

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We can set that there is a repository
of git-it with a username, jlord.

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We can click on it and
see there is a lot of information here.

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We see a brief description of the project,
the URL.

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Some helpful numbers about commits,
branches, releases and contributors.

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And just above, you'll see multiple tabs
for each of the different features and

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views.

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The Code view is where you'll find
the files included in the repository.

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These files may contain the source code or
any documentation and usually,

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a license file and a README.

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Any changes to these files will be
tracked via Git version control.

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A licensed file allows for the source
code to be used, modified, and, or

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shared under the defined terms and
conditions.

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The README is a special file that explains
the project and depending on the repo,

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information on how to get started and
how to contribute.

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The README.md file is shown at
the bottom of the repository home page.

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In addition to being a place to host and
share your Git projects,

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GitHub provides features like issues and
pull requests.

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Issues are used to track bugs and
feature requests.

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We can see that there are several open
issues and even more closed issues.

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If you have a feature request or a bug for
a specific project, the first thing to do

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would be to search the issues to see if
someone else has already reported it.

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Let's take a look at
the pull requests tab.

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A pull request represents a change,
such as adding,

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modifying or deleting lines of code or
whole files.

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Pull requests let you discuss and
review changes and

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are typically used to resolve issues.

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Taking a look at pull requests,

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you can learn a lot about
the evolution of a project.

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You can click in and
see who opened the pull request for

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conversations surrounding the change, the
commits involve and what files changed.

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Before starting the next video,

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take some time to explore
some repositories on GitHub.