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Udacity: Get Started with Open Source Projects on GitHub - Part II
Inspired to start contributing to open source projects on GitHub? Excellent! Here’s an overview and tutorial on how to get started with GitHub. GitHub is a hosting site for projects using the git distributed version control system. Software projects use version control systems (VCSs for short) so that people can quickly answer questions like: why was this change introduced? who would be the best person to ask about it? what changed between version X and version Y?Git is particularly modern and feature-rich VCS (trivia: git was created by Linus Torvalds, the original author of the Linux kernel) and forms the basis of GitHub. Some good resources to learn git and GitHub are the following: Set Up Git try.github.io How the Heck Do I Use GitHub? Version Control by Example You don’t need to know all ins-and-outs of git to contribute to a project on GitHub. In fact, you can contribute to it using the following quick steps (these suppose that you already have git installe…