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
- What are other good resources for learning Git and GitHub?
Setup
- Signing up for a new GitHub account
- Setting your email in git
- Setting your username in git
- Dealing with line endings
- Installing Git HTML help
- Keeping your email address private
- Where can I find Open Source projects to work on?
- 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
User Accounts
- What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
- How to change your username
- What happens when I change my username?
- Oh noes! I've forgotten my username or email
- How do I change my primary email address?
- Setting up email verification
- Deleting a user account
- What happens if my account is locked?
- What happens if my repository is locked?
- Can I merge two accounts?
- Keeping work and personal repositories separate
- Blocking a user
- Unblocking a user
- Gravatar Problems
- Best practices for leaving your company
- What does the "Available for hire" checkbox do?
- Preventing Unauthorized Access
- Sudo Mode
- Connecting with third party applications
- What is a strong password?
- Error: user cannot be added as collaborator
- Error: Invalid login token
Organizations
- Converting a user into an organization
- Converting an organization into a user
- How do I access my organization account?
- Can I create accounts for people in my organization?
- What are the different access permissions?
- Adding organization members to a team
- How do I remove a team member?
- Removing a user from your organization
- Managing an organization's settings
- Renaming an organization
- Transferring organization ownership
- Removing yourself from an organization
- Deleting an organization account
- Who can access organization billing information and account settings?
- Can an organization be added to a different organization account?
- Deleting a private fork of a private organization repository
- Creating a new organization account
Security
- Updating your GitHub access credentials
Two-factor Authentication (2FA)
- About Two-Factor Authentication
- Providing your 2FA security code
- Recovering your account if you lost your 2FA credentials
Billing
- What plan should I choose?
- Updating your organization's credit card
- How can I add extra information to my organization's receipts?
- Do you have custom plans?
- Downloading receipts for organizations
- Finding your organization's next billing date
- Does GitHub provide invoicing?
- How can I add extra information to my receipts?
- Setting your billing email
- Updating your account's credit card
- Downgrading a user account to free
- Redeeming a coupon
- Finding your next billing date
- Downloading receipts
- How do I cancel my account?
- 500 error while upgrading
- Downgrading an organization account to free
- If my account is locked and I upgrade it, do I owe anything for previous time?
- Can I pay with something other than a credit card?
- Upgrading your personal account from free to a paid account
- Upgrading your organization account from free to a paid account
- How does upgrading or downgrading affect the billing process?
- Monthly and Yearly Billing
- Redeeming a coupon for organizations
Repositories
- Creating a new repository
- Setting the default branch
- Making a public repository private
- Making a private repository public
- How to transfer a repository
- Renaming a repository
- Duplicating a repository
- Deleting a repository
- Creating Webhooks
- Testing webhooks
- What is my disk quota?
- Working with large files
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- Can I archive a repository?
- Fixing egit corruption
- HTTPS cloning errors
- Deleting a private fork of a private user repository
- Issues-only access permissions
- Getting permanent links to files
- Customizing Issue Labels
- Distributing large binaries
- Creating and deleting branches within your repository
- 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 Official 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
Search
- Searching GitHub
- Advanced Search
- Search Syntax
- Searching repositories
- Searching code
- Searching issues
- Searching users
Notifications
- Watching Repositories
- Notifications
- Configuring notification emails
- Viewing your feeds
- Stars
Stars
- Managing Stars
- Browsing Friends' Stars
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Using the Command Bar
Collaborating
- Using Pull Requests
- Creating a pull request
- Merging a pull request
- Closing a pull request
- Tidying up Pull Requests
- Syncing a fork
- What happens when I remove a collaborator from my private repository?
- Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository
- How do I add a collaborator?
- How do I remove a collaborator?
- Issue attachments
- Adding commit comments
- Checking out pull requests locally
- What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?
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
SSH
- Generating SSH Keys
- 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
Pages
- What are GitHub Pages?
- Repository metadata on GitHub Pages
- @Mentions on GitHub Pages
- Emoji on GitHub Pages
- Redirects on GitHub Pages
- User, Organization, and Project Pages
- Creating Pages with the automatic generator
- Creating Project Pages manually
- Using Jekyll with Pages
- Using Jekyll Plugins with GitHub Pages
- Setting up a custom domain with Pages
- Custom 404 Pages
- Using submodules with Pages
- My custom domain isn't working
- Files that start with an underscore are missing
- Pages don't build: "Unable to run Jekyll"
- Unpublishing a project page
- Should I rename <username.github.com> repositories to <username.github.io>?
- Migrating your Pages site from Maruku
Writing on GitHub
- Markdown Basics
- GitHub Flavored Markdown
- Writing on GitHub
Manipulating Files
- Creating new files
- Editing Files
- Renaming a file
- Moving a file to a new location
- Deleting files
- GitHub Flow in the Browser
Working with non-code files
- Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
- 3D File Viewer
- Rendering CSV and TSV data
- Rendering differences in prose documents
Commits
- Can I delete 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?
- Closing issues via commit messages
- Why are my commits in the wrong order?
- Comparing commits across time
- Differences between commit views
Gists
- Creating gists
- Cannot delete an anonymous gist
- Embedding, downloading, and copying Gists
- Maps in Gists
Advanced Git
- Changing author info
- Splitting a subpath out into a new repository
- Interactive rebase
- Working with subtree merge
- Sharing repositories without GitHub
- Remove sensitive data
Deploying
- Managing deploy keys
- Using ssh agent forwarding
- Deploying with Capistrano
Releases
- About Releases
- Creating Releases
- Listing and Editing Releases
- Working with Tags
GitHub for Mac
- First launch
- How do I add repositories?
- Working with repositories
- Making changes
- Viewing previous commits
- Branching out
- How can I push or pull?
- Merging branches
- Resolving merge conflicts
- How do I remove a repository?
- Is there a way to see what git commands the GitHub for Mac app is executing?
- Does GitHub for Mac run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
- Can I have multiple Git remotes & non-GitHub remotes?
- Why did my changes disappear when switching branches?
- GitHub Conduit
- Error: GitHub Enterprise version is too old
GitHub for Windows
- Getting Started with GitHub for Windows
- Do I need to install anything extra?
- Do I need SSH keys to use GitHub for Windows?
- Adding repositories with GitHub for Windows
- Accessing the GitHub for Windows log
- Getting a crash dump
- Synchronizing repositories
- How do I work with branches in GitHub for Windows?
- Can I have multiple Git remotes & non-GitHub remotes?
- Uninstalling GitHub for Windows
- Windows XP is not supported
Graphs and Contributions
- Using graphs
- I don't see myself in the repository contributors graph
- Why don't graphs work with IE8?
- Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
- Viewing contributions
- How do I set up guidelines for contributors?
- About Pulse
Automation
- Creating an access token for command-line use
- Git automation with OAuth tokens
- Getting started with the API
Wiki
- How do I add images to my wiki?
- How do I add links to my wiki?
Importing
- Importing from Subversion
- What are the differences between SVN and Git?
- Importing an external Git repository
- Support for subversion clients
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
- I'm developing a third-party GitHub app! What do I need to know?
- Using an Octocat to link to GitHub or your GitHub profile
Site Policy
- Supported browsers
- Name Squatting Policy
- DMCA Takedown Policy
- 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 Government Users
- EU Safe Harbor
- GitHub Registered Developer Agreement