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Issue and Pull Request templates - The GitHub Blog
Issue and Pull Request templates
It’s hard to solve a problem when important details are missing. Now project maintainers can add templates for Issues and Pull Requests to projects, helping contributors share the right details…
February 17, 2016
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Updated December 6, 2019
It’s hard to solve a problem when important details are missing. Now project maintainers can add templates for Issues and Pull Requests to projects, helping contributors share the right details at the start of a thread. This is the first of many improvements to Issues and Pull Requests that we’re working on based on feedback from the community.
To add an Issue template to a repository create a file called ISSUE_TEMPLATE
in the root directory. A file extension is optional, but Markdown files (.md) are supported. Markdown support makes it easy to add things like headings, links, @-mentions, and task lists to your templates.
Pull Request templates follows the same pattern: add a file called PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE
to the root directory of your repository.
If you’re worried about the added clutter in the root directory of your project, we also added support for a .github/
folder. You can put CONTRIBUTING.md
, ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
, and PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
files in .github/
and everything will work as expected.
Check out the documentation for additional information on the feature.
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