GitHub Help

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Sometimes you just need a little help.

Bootcamp
- Set up git
- Create a repo
- Fork a repo
- Be social
Setup
- Signing up for a new GitHub account
- Verifying your email address
- Troubleshooting email verification
- About commit email addresses
- Setting your commit email address on GitHub
- Setting your commit email address in Git
- Blocking command line pushes that expose your personal email address
- Setting your username in Git
- Dealing with line endings
- Supported browsers
- Troubleshooting connectivity problems
About GitHub
- GitHub Glossary
- Git and GitHub learning resources
- GitHub's products
- Differences between user and organization accounts
- Access permissions on GitHub
Exploring projects on GitHub
- Finding open source projects on GitHub
- About your personal dashboard
- About your organization dashboard
- About topics
- Classifying your repository with topics
- About stars
- Managing your stars
- Following people
- About GitHub mirrors
Using Git
- Git cheatsheet
- Ignoring files
- Associating text editors with Git
- What is a good Git workflow?
Setting up and managing your GitHub user account
- Managing user account settings
- Managing email preferences
- Managing access to your personal repositories
- Managing your membership in organizations
Authenticating to GitHub
- Keeping your account and data secure
- Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Authenticating to a GitHub organization with SAML single sign-on
- Connecting to GitHub with SSH
- Troubleshooting SSH
- Managing commit signature verification
- Troubleshooting commit signature verification
Setting up and managing your GitHub profile
- Customizing your profile
- Managing contribution graphs on your profile
Writing on GitHub
- Getting started with writing and formatting on GitHub
  - About writing and formatting on GitHub
  - Basic writing and formatting syntax
- Working with advanced formatting
- Working with saved replies
Receiving notifications about activity on GitHub
- Getting started with notifications
- Managing your notifications
Setting up and managing organizations and teams
- Collaborating with groups in organizations
- Managing membership in your organization
- Managing people's access to your organization with roles
- Organizing members into teams
- Managing access to your organization's repositories
- Managing access to your organization’s project boards
- Managing access to your organization's apps
  - Adding GitHub App managers in your organization
  - Removing GitHub App managers from your organization
- Managing organization settings
- Migrating your organization to improved organization permissions
- Restricting access to your organization's data
- Keeping your organization secure
- Managing member identity and access in your organization with SAML single sign-on
- Granting access to your organization with SAML single sign-on
- Encouraging positive contributions in your organization
Setting up and managing billing and payments on GitHub
- Managing your GitHub billing settings
- Managing billing for your GitHub account
- Managing billing for GitHub Marketplace apps
- Managing billing for Git Large File Storage
- Setting up and paying for organizations for procurement companies
Creating, cloning, and archiving repositories
- Creating a repository on GitHub
- Cloning a repository from GitHub
- Archiving a GitHub repository
Managing files in a repository
- Managing files on GitHub
- Managing files using the command line
Working with non-code files
- Rendering and diffing images
- Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
- Working with Jupyter Notebook files on GitHub
- 3D File Viewer
- Rendering CSV and TSV data
- Rendering PDF documents
- Rendering differences in prose documents
Managing Large Files
- Working with large files
- Versioning large files
Commits
- Creating a commit with multiple authors
- Changing a commit message
- Commit exists on GitHub but not in my local clone
- Commit branch and tag labels
- Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
- Why are my commits in the wrong order?
- Comparing commits across time
- Differences between commit views
Searching for information on GitHub
- Getting started with searching on GitHub
- Searching on GitHub
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using keyboard shortcuts
Collaborating with issues and pull requests
- GitHub flow
- About collaborative development models
- About conversations on GitHub
- Working with forks
- Collaborating on repositories with code quality features enabled
  - About status checks
- Proposing changes to your work with pull requests
- Addressing merge conflicts
- Reviewing changes in pull requests
- Incorporating changes from a pull request
Building a strong community
- Setting up your project for healthy contributions
- Using templates to encourage high-quality issues and pull requests in your repository
- Collaborating with your team
- Moderating comments and conversations
- Encouraging positive contributions to your project
- Documenting your project with wikis
Managing Remotes
- About remote repositories
- Adding a remote
- Changing a remote's URL
- Renaming a remote
- Removing a remote
- Which remote URL should I use?
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- Fetching a remote
- Pushing to a remote
- Updating credentials from the OSX Keychain
- Caching your GitHub password in Git
Releases
- About Releases
- Creating Releases
- Automation for release forms with query parameters
- Working with Tags
- Editing and deleting releases
- Getting the download count for your releases
- Linking to releases
Visualizing repository data with graphs
- Accessing basic repository data
- Analyzing changes to a repository's content
  - Visualizing commits in a repository
  - Visualizing additions and deletions to content in a repository
- Understanding connections between repositories
Importing your projects to GitHub
- Importing source code to GitHub
- Working with Subversion on GitHub
Advanced Git
- About Git rebase
- Using Git rebase on the command line
- Resolving merge conflicts after a Git rebase
- Changing author info
- Splitting a subfolder out into a new repository
- About Git subtree merges
Managing your work on GitHub
- Managing your work with issues
- Labeling issues and pull requests
- Managing project boards in your repository or organization
- Tracking the progress of your work with project boards
- Tracking the progress of your work with milestones
- Finding information in a repository
Administering a repository
- Managing repository settings
- Managing branches in your repository
- Configuring pull request merges
- Defining the mergeability of pull requests
- Updating your project's dependencies
- Securing your repository
  - About Token Scanning
Gists
- About gists
- Creating gists
- Forking and cloning gists
Automation
- Getting started with the API
- Git automation with OAuth tokens
- About Webhooks
Customizing your GitHub workflow
- Exploring integrations
- Purchasing and installing apps in GitHub Marketplace
  - Installing an app in your personal account
  - Installing an app in your organization
- Customizing your project with GitHub Actions
GitHub Pages Basics
- What is GitHub Pages?
- Configuring a publishing source for GitHub Pages
- User, Organization, and Project Pages
- Creating Project Pages using the command line
- Securing your GitHub Pages site with HTTPS
- Unpublishing a Project Pages site
- Unpublishing a User Pages site
- Further reading on GitHub Pages
Customizing GitHub Pages
- Using Jekyll as a static site generator with GitHub Pages
- Troubleshooting GitHub Pages builds
- Adding Jekyll plugins to a GitHub Pages site
- Using a custom domain with GitHub Pages
- Additional customizations for GitHub Pages
Teaching and learning with GitHub Education
- Using GitHub at your educational institution
- Using GitHub for your schoolwork
- Using GitHub in your classroom and research
Finding talent with GitHub Jobs
- About GitHub Jobs
Working with GitHub Support
- About GitHub Support
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud support
- About GitHub Premium Support
- GitHub Marketplace support
- Submitting a ticket
Understanding how GitHub uses and protects your data
- About GitHub's use of your data
- Requesting an archive of your personal account’s data
- Opting into or out of data use for your private repository
Site Policy
- GitHub Terms of Service
- GitHub Corporate Terms of Service
- GitHub Privacy Statement
- Global Privacy Practices
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud Addendum
- GitHub Enterprise Server License Agreement
- GitHub Connect Addendum to the GitHub Enterprise License Agreement
- GitHub Supplemental Terms for Microsoft Volume Licensing
- GitHub Enterprise Agreement
- GitHub Logo Policy
- Name Squatting Policy
- DMCA Takedown Policy
- Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice
- Guide to Submitting a DMCA Counter Notice
- GitHub Trademark Policy
- GitHub Sensitive Data Removal Policy
- GitHub Subprocessors and Cookies
- GitHub Security
- Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities
- Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service Applicable to U.S. Federal Government Users
- Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data
- GitHub Community Guidelines
- GitHub Community Forum Code of Conduct
- GitHub Registered Developer Agreement
- GitHub Marketplace Terms of Service
- GitHub Marketplace Developer Agreement
- GitHub Pre-release Program
- GitHub Open Source Applications Terms and Conditions
- GitHub and Export Controls
- GitHub Statement Against Modern Slavery and Child Labor
- GitHub Anti-Bribery Statement
- GitHub Gifts and Entertainment Policy
- GitHub Event Terms
- GitHub Event Code of Conduct
- GitHub GPL Cooperation Commitment

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