GitHub Help

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Sometimes you just need a little help.

Common Issues

Bootcamp
- Set Up Git
- Create A Repo
- Fork A Repo
- Be Social
- GitHub Glossary
- Good Resources for Learning Git and GitHub
Setup
- Signing up for a new GitHub account
- Verifying your email address
- Setting your email in Git
- Setting your username in Git
- Dealing with line endings
- Keeping your email address private
- How do I set up my profile picture?
- Adding a bio to your profile
- About your profile
- Pinning repositories to your profile
Setting up and managing your GitHub user account
- Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Managing user account settings
- Managing email preferences
- Paying for user accounts
- Changing your personal account's billing plan
- Managing billing on GitHub
Using Git
- Git cheatsheet
- Ignoring files
- Associating text editors with Git
- What is a good Git workflow?
- Using Git blame to trace changes in a file
- Resolving a merge conflict from the command line
Setting up and managing organizations and teams
- Creating a new organization account
- Paying for organization accounts
- Changing your organization billing plan
- Setting up teams
- Maintaining teams
- Restricting access to your organization's data
- Keeping your organization secure
- Managing organization settings
- Encouraging positive contributions in your organization
  - Blocking a user from your organization
  - Unblocking a user from your organization
Organizations
- How do I access my organization account?
- What are the different access permissions?
- Removing yourself from an organization
Security
- Why do my images have strange URLs?
- Updating your GitHub access credentials
- What is a strong password?
- How can I reset my password?
- Reviewing your security log
- Preventing Unauthorized Access
- Sudo Mode
Repositories
- Integrating JIRA with your projects
- Creating a new repository
- Cloning a repository
- Making a public repository private
- Making a private repository public
- About repository transfers
- Transferring a repository owned by your personal account
- Transferring a repository owned by your organization
- Renaming a repository
- Duplicating a repository
- Deleting a repository
- About Webhooks
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- Can I archive a repository?
- HTTPS cloning errors
- Issues-only access permissions
- Getting permanent links to files
- Relative links in READMEs
- Section links on READMEs and blob pages
- What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
- Open source licensing
- About GitHub mirrors
- Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line
- Error: Repository not found
- Error: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
Managing Large Files
- Working with large files
- Versioning large files
Search
- Searching GitHub
- Advanced Search
- Search Syntax
- Searching repositories
- Searching code
- Searching issues
- Searching users
Notifications
- About notifications
- Watching repositories
- About notification emails
- Managing notification emails for organizations
- Managing notifications for pushes to a repository
- News Feed
- Managing notification delivery methods
- Listing watched repositories
- Unwatching repositories
- Managing notifications
Stars
- About Stars
- Finding interesting projects on GitHub
- Managing your stars
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using keyboard shortcuts
Administering a repository
- Helping people contribute to your project
- Managing branches in your repository
- Defining the mergeability of pull requests
Collaborating on projects using issues and pull requests
- Working with forks
- Discussing projects in issues and pull requests
- Collaborating on repositories with code quality features enabled
  - About statuses
  - Working with protected branches and required status checks
- Proposing changes to a project with pull requests
- Reviewing and discussing changes in pull requests
- Incorporating changes from a pull request
Managing projects on GitHub
- Managing projects with issues
- Tracking the progress of a project with milestones
- Finding information in a project
- Encouraging positive contributions in your project
Managing Repository Collaborators
- Inviting collaborators to a personal repository
- Removing a collaborator from a personal repository
- Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository
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
SSH
- Generating an SSH key
- Keeping your SSH keys and application access tokens safe
- What are GitHub's SSH key fingerprints?
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- Using SSH over the HTTPS port
- How do I recover my SSH key passphrase?
- Error: Permission denied (publickey)
- Error: Bad file number
- Error: Key already in use
- Error: Permission to user/repo denied to other-user
- Error: Permission to user/repo denied to user/other-repo
- Error: Agent admitted failure to sign
- Error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK
- Error: We're doing an SSH key audit
GPG
- Generating a GPG key
- About GPG commit and tag signatures
- Signing commits using GPG
- Signing tags using GPG
GitHub Pages Basics
- What is GitHub Pages?
- User, Organization, and Project Pages
- Creating Pages with the automatic generator
- Creating Project Pages manually
- Securing your GitHub Pages site with HTTPS
- Further reading on GitHub Pages
Customizing GitHub Pages
- Using Jekyll as a static site generator with GitHub Pages
- Troubleshooting Jekyll builds
- Adding Jekyll plugins to a GitHub Pages site
- Using a custom domain with GitHub Pages
- Additional customizations for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages Troubleshooting
- Unpublishing a Project Pages site
- Unpublishing a User Pages site
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
Manipulating Files
- Creating new files
- Adding a file to a repository
- Adding a file to a repository from the command line
- Renaming a file
- Renaming a file using the command line
- Moving a file to a new location
- Moving a file to a new location using the command line
- Deleting files
- GitHub Flow in the Browser
- Editing files in your repository
- Editing files in another user's repository
Working with non-code files
- Rendering and diffing images
- Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
- 3D File Viewer
- Rendering CSV and TSV data
- Rendering PDF documents
- Rendering differences in prose documents
Commits
- Changing a commit message
- Closing issues via commit messages
- 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
Gists
- About gists
- Creating gists
- Forking and cloning gists
- Deleting an anonymous gist
Advanced Git
- Remove sensitive data
- About Git rebase
- Using Git rebase
- Resolving merge conflicts after a Git rebase
- Changing author info
- Splitting a subfolder out into a new repository
- About Git subtree merges
Releases
- About Releases
- Creating Releases
- Working with Tags
- Editing and deleting releases
- Getting the download count for your releases
- Linking to releases
Graphs and Contributions
- About Repository Graphs
- Viewing contributions on your profile page
- Publicizing or hiding your private contributions on your profile
- Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
- I don't see myself in the repository contributors graph
- About Pulse
- Why don't graphs work with IE8?
Automation
- Getting started with the API
- Creating an access token for command-line use
- Git automation with OAuth tokens
Wiki
- About GitHub Wikis
- Adding wiki pages via the online interface
- Editing wiki pages via the online interface
- Creating a footer
- Creating a sidebar
- Adding and editing wiki pages locally
- Viewing a wiki's history of changes
- Adding images to wikis
- Adding links to wikis
- Supported MediaWiki formats
- Changing access permissions for wikis
- Disabling wikis
Importing your projects to GitHub
- Importing source code to GitHub
- Working with Subversion on GitHub
Jobs
- How to write a great job post
Administration
- What IP addresses does GitHub use that I should whitelist?
- Why did I get redirected to this page?
About GitHub
- Using an Octocat to link to GitHub or your GitHub profile
- Where can I find Open Source projects to work on?
Site Policy
- Supported Browsers
- Name Squatting Policy
- DMCA Takedown Policy
- Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice
- Guide to Submitting a DMCA Counter Notice
- GitHub Trademark Policy
- GitHub Privacy Policy
- GitHub Security
- Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities
- GitHub Terms of Service
- Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service Applicable to U.S. Federal Government Users
- Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data
- EU Safe Harbor
- GitHub Registered Developer Agreement
- GitHub Pre-Release Program
- GitHub and Export Controls