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GitHub Help

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• Enterprise 2.4

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  Set Up Git

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  Create A Repo

• 

  Fork A Repo

• 

  Be Social

Sometimes you just need a little help.

Common Issues

• Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
• Why is Git always asking for my password?
• Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
• Error: Repository not found
• HTTPS cloning errors
• What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
• Remove sensitive data
• How do I access my organization account?
• What are the different access permissions?
• Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
• Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
• My repository is marked as the wrong language

• Bootcamp

  • Set Up Git
  • Create A Repo
  • Fork A Repo
  • Be Social
  • GitHub Glossary
  • Good Resources for Learning Git and GitHub

• Setup

  • 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?

• 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

• Managing email preferences

  • Adding an email address to your GitHub account
  • Changing your primary email address
  • Remembering your GitHub username or email

• User Accounts

  • Changing your GitHub username
  • Deleting your user account
  • What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
  • Publicizing or hiding organization membership
  • Permission levels for a user account repository
  • What happens when I change my username?
  • Connecting with third-party applications

• Setting up and managing organizations and teams

  • Creating a new organization account
    • About organizations
    • Creating a new organization from scratch
    • Converting a user into an organization
    • Permission levels for an organization
  • Setting up teams
    • About improved organization permissions
    • Repository permission levels for an organization
    • Creating a team
    • Deleting a team
    • Changing a person's role to owner
    • Giving "team maintainer" permissions to an organization member
    • 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
  • Maintaining teams
    • Changing team settings
    • Adding organization members to a team
    • Removing organization members from a team
    • Managing an individual's access to an organization repository
    • Managing team access to an organization repository
  • Keeping your organization secure
    • Adding outside collaborators to repositories in your organization
    • Reviewing the audit log for your organization
    • Ensuring that organization members have enabled two-factor authentication
    • Reviewing inactive members of your organization
    • Converting an organization member to an outside collaborator
    • Auditing applications owned by your organization
  • Managing organization settings
    • Accessing your organization's settings
    • Renaming an organization
    • Transferring organization ownership
    • Deleting an organization account
    • Converting an organization into a user

• Organizations

  • How do I access my organization account?
  • What are the different access permissions?
  • Removing yourself from an organization

• Security

  • 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

• Two-factor Authentication (2FA)

  • About Two-Factor Authentication
  • Downloading your two-factor authentication recovery codes
  • Configuring two-factor authentication via a TOTP mobile app
  • Configuring two-factor authentication via FIDO U2F
  • Providing your 2FA authentication code
  • Recovering your account if you lost your 2FA credentials

• Repositories

  • Integrating JIRA with your projects
  • Creating a new repository
  • Cloning a repository
  • Making a public repository private
  • Making a private repository public
  • Transferring a repository
  • 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?
  • 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
    • Conditions for large files
    • Removing files from a repository's history
    • Distributing large binaries
  • Versioning large files
    • About Git Large File Storage
    • Installing Git Large File Storage
    • Configuring Git Large File Storage
    • Collaboration with Git Large File Storage

• Search

  • Searching GitHub
  • Advanced Search
  • Search Syntax
  • Searching repositories
  • Searching code
  • Searching issues
  • Searching users

• Notifications

  • About notifications
  • Watching repositories
  • Configuring notification emails
  • Viewing your feeds
  • Receiving email notifications for pushes to a repository
  • News Feed
  • Unsubscribing from conversations
  • Managing notification delivery methods
  • Subscribing to conversations
  • Listing watched repositories
  • Unwatching repositories
  • Managing notifications

• Stars

  • About Stars
  • Managing your stars

• Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Using keyboard shortcuts

• Collaborating

  • Managing branches in your repository
    • About branches
    • Setting the default branch
    • Viewing branches in your repository
    • Creating and deleting branches within your repository
  • Defining the mergeability of pull requests
    • About protected branches
    • Configuring protected branches
    • Enabling required status checks
  • Proposing changes to a project with pull requests
    • Types of collaborative development models
    • Using pull requests
    • Creating a pull request
    • Commenting on the diff of a pull request
    • Checking out pull requests locally
  • Working with forks
    • About forks
    • Syncing a fork
    • Configuring a remote for a fork
    • Merging an upstream repository into your fork
    • What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?
  • Incorporating changes from a pull request
    • Merging a pull request
    • Closing a pull request
    • Reverting a pull request
    • Deleting branches in a pull request
    • Restoring branches in a pull request

• Managing projects

  • About issues
  • Creating an issue
  • Disabling issues
  • File attachments on issues and pull requests
  • Assigning issues and pull requests to other GitHub users
  • Viewing all of your issues and pull requests
  • Creating and editing labels for issues and pull requests
  • Applying labels to issues and pull requests
  • Creating and editing milestones for issues and pull requests
  • Associating milestones with issues and pull requests
  • Viewing your milestone's progress
  • Filtering issues and pull requests
  • Filtering issues and pull requests by assignees
  • Filtering issues and pull requests by labels
  • Filtering issues and pull requests by milestone
  • Sorting issues and pull requests
  • Using search to filter issues and pull requests
  • Sharing filters
  • Locking conversations
  • Deleting unused branches

• Managing Repository Collaborators

  • Adding 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 SSH keys
  • Keeping your SSH keys and application access tokens safe
  • Working with SSH key passphrases
  • 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

• GitHub Pages Basics

  • What are GitHub Pages?
  • User, Organization, and Project Pages
  • Creating Pages with the automatic generator
  • Creating Project Pages manually
  • Using Jekyll with Pages
  • Further reading on GitHub Pages

• GitHub Pages Features

  • Using Jekyll Plugins with GitHub Pages
  • Repository metadata on GitHub Pages
  • Sitemaps for GitHub Pages
  • Redirects on GitHub Pages
  • Emoji on GitHub Pages
  • @Mentions on GitHub Pages
  • Custom 404 Pages

• GitHub Pages Troubleshooting

  • Troubleshooting GitHub Pages build failures
  • Unpublishing a Project Pages site
  • Unpublishing a User Pages site
  • Using submodules with Pages
  • Migrating your Pages site from Maruku
  • Page build failed: Invalid submodule
  • Page build failed: Missing submodule
  • Page build failed: Markdown errors
  • Page build failed: Config file error
  • Page build failed: Unknown tag error
  • Page build failed: Tag not properly terminated
  • Page build failed: Tag not properly closed
  • Page build failed: File does not exist in includes directory
  • Page build failed: File is a symlink
  • Page build failed: Symlink does not exist within your site's repository
  • Page build failed: File is not properly UTF-8 encoded
  • Page build failed: Invalid post date
  • Page build failed: Invalid highlighter language
  • Files that start with an underscore are missing

• Writing on GitHub

  • Markdown Basics
  • GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • Writing on GitHub

• Manipulating Files

  • Creating new files
  • Adding a file to a repository from the command line
  • Renaming a file
  • 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

• 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
  • Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
  • I don't see myself in the repository contributors graph
  • Setting guidelines for repository contributors
  • 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

  • Importing a Git repository using the command line

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