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link: Help.GitHub
Welcome to the GitHub Help site
Here we have compiled many guides to help you set up and use git and GitHub.
This site is a work in progress.
Guides
Use the sidebar on the right side of this site to access our guides!
If you would like to submit your own guides, please fork our repo and send pull requests to tekkub
Getting help
There are a number of resources available to help you learn git or fix issues with GitHub:
GitHub
- GitHub Support — Resolve issues with GitHub or get help with basic git issues.
- Contact GitHub — Don’t feel like making an account on support.github.com? This is your direct line to us.
- GitHub Google Group — Ask the community for help
- GitHub Status — Is GitHub down, or is it just me?
Git
- git-scm
- git man pages — In-depth documentation for every git command.
- git user’s manual
- Learn.GitHub — Git tutorials for beginners and experts.
- git ready — Little tips and hints for using git.
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Setup
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys
- How to generate SSH keys and add them to GitHub
- Troubleshooting SSH issues
- Solutions to common SSH issues
- Setting user name, email and GitHub token
- Configure your local git installation so that commits are linked to your GitHub account
- Installing Git HTML help
- How to install the local git HTML help files
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
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Repos
- Deleting a repo
- How to remove a repo from your GitHub account
- Moving a repo
- How to move a repo from one account to another
- Removing sensitive data
- Dealing with accidentally committed passwords or other sensitive information
- Splitting a subpath out into a new repo
- How to generate a new repo from a subpath, retaining history.
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Collaborating
- Forking a project
- How to fork a project, submit changes, and pull from other repos in the fork network
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Mac
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys (OSX)
- Setting up SSH keys on Mac OSX
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
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Windows
- Generating SSH keys (Win/msysgit)
- Setting up SSH keys with msysgit on Windows
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
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Linux
- Generating SSH keys (Linux)
- Setting up SSH keys on Linux
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo