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
Setup
- Signing up for a new GitHub account
- Verifying your email address
- 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
About GitHub
- GitHub Glossary
- Git and GitHub learning resources
- Differences between user and organization accounts
- Access permissions on GitHub
- GitHub's billing plans
- Using an Octocat to link to GitHub or your GitHub profile
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 your membership in organizations
- Upgrading your personal account's billing plan
  - User account billing plans
  - Upgrading your personal account
- Paying for user accounts
- Viewing and managing your personal account's billing information
- Downgrading your personal account's billing plan
  - Downgrading a user account to free
- Managing your personal account's apps
- Managing large file storage and bandwidth for your personal account
  - Purchasing additional storage and bandwidth for a personal account
  - Downgrading storage and bandwidth for a personal account
Authenticating to GitHub
- Keeping your account and data secure
- Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Adding a fallback authentication method with Recover Accounts Elsewhere
- Authenticating to a GitHub organization with SAML single sign-on
- Connecting to GitHub with SSH
- Troubleshooting SSH
- Signing commits with GPG
- Troubleshooting GPG
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
Setting up and managing organizations and teams
- Collaborating with groups in organizations
  - About organizations
  - Creating a new organization from scratch
  - Accessing your organization's settings
- Managing membership in your organization
  - Inviting users to join your organization
  - Canceling or editing an invitation to join your organization
  - Removing a member from your organization
  - Reinstating a former member of your organization
  - Can I create accounts for people in my organization?
- Managing people's access to your organization with roles
  - Permission levels for an organization
  - Changing a person's role to owner
  - Giving "team maintainer" permissions to an organization member
  - Adding a billing manager to your organization
  - Removing a billing manager from your organization
- Organizing members into teams
  - About teams
  - Creating a team
  - Adding organization members to a team
  - Renaming a team
  - Changing team visibility
  - Changing a team's parent
  - Removing organization members from a team
  - Deleting a team
- Managing access to your organization's repositories
  - Repository permission levels for an organization
  - Managing an individual's access to an organization repository
  - Managing team access to an organization repository
  - Adding outside collaborators to repositories in your organization
  - Removing an outside collaborator from an organization repository
  - Converting an organization member to an outside collaborator
  - Converting an outside collaborator to an organization member
  - Reinstating a former outside collaborator's access to your organization
- Managing organization settings
  - Renaming an organization
  - Transferring organization ownership
  - Deleting an organization account
  - Converting an organization into a user
  - Integrating JIRA with your organization's projects
- Migrating your organization to improved organization permissions
  - Converting your previous Owners team to the improved organization permissions
  - Converting your previous admin team to the improved organization permissions
  - Migrating your previous admin teams to the improved organization permissions
- Restricting access to your organization's data
  - About OAuth App access restrictions
  - Enabling OAuth App access restrictions for your organization
  - Disabling OAuth App access restrictions for your organization
  - Approving OAuth Apps for your organization
  - Denying access to a previously approved OAuth App for your organization
- Keeping your organization secure
  - Viewing whether users in your organization have 2FA enabled
  - Preparing to require two-factor authentication in your organization
  - Requiring two-factor authentication in your organization
  - Reviewing the audit log for your organization
  - Reviewing your organization's installed integrations
- Managing member identity and access in your organization with SAML single sign-on
  - About identity and access management with SAML single sign-on
  - About SCIM
  - Connecting your identity provider to your organization
  - Enabling and testing SAML single sign-on for your organization
  - Preparing to enforce SAML single sign-on in your organization
  - Enforcing SAML single sign-on for your organization
  - Downloading your organization's SAML single sign-on recovery codes
  - Accessing your organization if your identity provider is unavailable
- Granting access to your organization with SAML single sign-on
  - Managing bots and service accounts with SAML single sign-on
  - Viewing and revoking organization members' authorized access tokens
  - About two-factor authentication and SAML single sign-on
- Encouraging positive contributions in your organization
  - Blocking a user from your organization
  - Viewing users who are blocked from your organization
  - Unblocking a user from your organization
- Upgrading your organization's billing plan
  - Organization billing plans
  - About per-user pricing
  - Upgrading your organization account
  - Switching from per-repository to per-user pricing
- Managing your organization's paid seats
  - Adding seats to your organization
  - Removing paid seats from your organization
- Paying for organization accounts
  - Updating your organization's payment method
  - Switching payment methods for your organization
  - Removing a payment method associated with your organization
  - Switching between monthly and yearly billing for your organization
  - Redeeming a coupon for organizations
  - Unlocking a locked organization account
  - Discounted organization accounts
- Viewing and managing your organization's billing information
  - Setting your organization's billing email
  - Finding your organization's next billing date
  - Downloading receipts for organizations
  - Adding information to your organization's receipts
- Downgrading your organization's billing plan
  - Downgrading your organization to free
  - Downgrading your organization from the Business plan to the Team plan
- Managing your organization's apps
  - Upgrading an app for your organization
  - Downgrading an app for your organization
  - Canceling an app for your organization
- Managing large file storage and bandwidth for your organization
  - Purchasing additional storage and bandwidth for an organization
  - Downgrading storage and bandwidth for an organization
- Setting up and paying for organizations for procurement companies
  - About organizations for procurement companies
  - Creating and paying for an organization on behalf of a client
  - Upgrading or downgrading your client's paid organization
  - Renewing your client's paid organization
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
- Managing storage and bandwidth usage
Commits
- 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
Search
- Searching GitHub
- Advanced Search
- Search Syntax
- Searching repositories
- Searching code
- Searching commits
- Searching issues
- Searching users
- Searching wikis
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
Exploring projects on GitHub
- About topics
- Classifying your repository with topics
- Finding open source projects on GitHub
- About Stars
- Managing your stars
- About GitHub mirrors
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using keyboard shortcuts
Collaborating with issues and pull requests
- About pull requests
- GitHub flow
- About collaborative development models
- Working with forks
- Discussing project details in issues and pull requests
- Collaborating on repositories with code quality features enabled
  - About statuses
  - Working with protected branches
- 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
- Helping people contribute to your project
- Moderating comments and conversations
- Encouraging positive contributions to 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
Releases
- About Releases
- Creating Releases
- 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
- 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
- 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
Gists
- About gists
- Creating gists
- Forking and cloning gists
- Deleting an anonymous gist
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
Automation
- Getting started with the API
- Git automation with OAuth tokens
- About Webhooks
Customizing your GitHub workflow
- Exploring integrations
  - About integrations
  - About GitHub Marketplace
- Purchasing and installing apps in GitHub Marketplace
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
Jobs
- How to write a great job post
Working with GitHub Support
- About GitHub Support
- Business plan support
- GitHub Marketplace support
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 Statement
- GitHub Security
- Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities
- GitHub Terms of Service
- GitHub Corporate Terms of Service
- GitHub Business Plan Addendum
- Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service Applicable to U.S. Federal Government Users
- Guidelines for Legal Requests of User Data
- Global Privacy Practices
- GitHub Community Guidelines
- 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