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Common Issues

  • My repository is marked as the wrong language
  • What is my disk quota?
  • Remove sensitive data
  • How do I access my organization account?
  • Do you have custom plans?
  • Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
  • How do I cancel my account?
  • Can I pay with something other than a credit card?
  • Why is Git always asking for my password?
  • Error: Invalid login token
  • Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
  • Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
  • What plan should I choose?
  • What are the different access permissions?
  • Can I add extra information to my receipts?
  • Error: Repository not found
  • HTTPS cloning errors
  • Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
  • What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
  • Bootcamp
    • Set Up Git
    • Create A Repo
    • Fork A Repo
    • Be Social
  • 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?
  • Using Git
    • Ignoring files
    • Using Textmate as your default editor
    • Using Sublime Text 2 as your default editor
    • Where can I learn more about Git and GitHub?
    • What is a good Git workflow?
    • What are other good resources for using Git or GitHub?
    • Using git blame to trace changes in a file
    • GitHub Flavored Markdown
    • Git cheatsheet
    • Working when GitHub Goes Down
    • 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
    • Downgrading a user account to free
    • Deleting a user account
    • What happens if my account is locked?
    • Can I merge two accounts?
    • Keeping work and personal repositories separate
    • Creating an OAuth token for command-line use
    • Blocking a user
    • Unblocking a user
    • What happens if my credit card declines?
    • Gravatar Problems
    • Best practices for leaving your company
    • What does the "Available for hire" checkbox do?
    • Error: Invalid login token
    • Error: user cannot be added as collaborator
    • Renaming your user account
  • Organizations
    • Creating a new organization account
    • Converting a user into an organization
    • Converting an organization into a user
    • Error: Cannot log in: "That account is an organization"
    • How do I access my organization account?
    • Can I create accounts for people in my organization?
    • What are the different access permissions?
    • How do I set up 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
    • Downgrading an organization account to free
    • Deleting an organization account
    • Who can access organization billing information and account settings?
    • Can an organization be added to a different organization account?
    • Explaining the account transformation warning
    • What is the total cost of using an organization account?
    • How do I delete a fork of my private repository
    • What is the difference between "Create New Organization" and "Turn [Account] Into An Organization"?
  • Billing
    • What plan should I choose?
    • Do you have custom plans?
    • Does GitHub provide invoicing?
    • Can I add extra information to my receipts?
    • Setting your billing email
    • Redeeming a coupon
    • Updating your account's credit card
    • Finding your next billing date
    • Downloading receipts
    • How do I cancel my account?
    • 500 error while upgrading
    • What happens to my repositories if I downgrade to free or my card declines?
    • Can I add my credit card number to my receipts?
    • 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
  • Repositories
    • Creating a new repository
    • Setting the default branch
    • Making a public repository private
    • Making a private repository public
    • How to transfer a repository
    • What is transferred with a repository?
    • Renaming a repository
    • Duplicating a repository
    • Deleting a repository
    • Post-Receive Hooks
    • Testing webhooks
    • What is my disk quota?
    • What is the size limit for a repository?
    • Working with large files
    • My repository is marked as the wrong language
    • Why isn't my favorite language recognized?
    • Can I archive a repository?
    • Fixing egit corruption
    • HTTPS cloning errors
    • Downloading files from the command line
    • Issues-only access permissions
    • How do I get a permanent link from file view to permanent blob url?
    • Git over HTTPS using OAuth token
    • Customizing Issue Labels
    • Distributing large binaries
    • Support for subversion clients
    • Creating and editing files in your repository
    • 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?
    • 3D File Viewer
    • Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
    • Error: The requested URL returned error 401
    • Error: The requested URL returned error 403
    • Error: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
    • Error: Repository not found
    • Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
    • Open source licensing
  • Search
    • Searching GitHub
    • Advanced Search
    • Search Syntax
    • Searching repositories
    • Searching code
    • Searching issues
    • Searching users
  • Notifications
    • Watching Repositories
    • Configuring notification emails
    • Stars
    • Notifications
    • Viewing your feeds
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Using the Command Bar
    • GitHub Launch
  • 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
  • Managing Remotes
    • 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
    • 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?
    • User, Organization and Project Pages
    • Creating Pages with the automatic generator
    • Creating Project Pages manually
    • Using Jekyll with 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>?
  • Manipulating Files
    • Creating new files
    • Renaming a file
    • Moving a file to a new location
    • Deleting files
  • Commits
    • How do I get my commits to link to my GitHub account?
    • 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?
  • Gists
    • Creating gists
    • Cannot delete an anonymous gist
    • Embedding, downloading, and copying Gists
  • Advanced Git
    • Splitting a subpath out into a new repository
    • Changing author info
    • Interactive rebase
    • Working with subtree merge
    • Remove sensitive data
  • Deploying
    • Managing deploy keys
    • Using ssh agent forwarding
    • Deploying with Capistrano
  • Releases
    • About Releases
    • Creating Releases
    • Listing and Editing Releases
  • GitHub for Mac
    • First launch
    • Working with repositories
    • Making changes
    • Viewing previous commits
    • Branching out
    • Merging branches
    • Resolving merge conflicts
    • Is there a way to see what git commands the GitHub for Mac app is executing?
  • GitHub for Windows
    • Getting Started with GitHub for Windows
    • Accessing the GitHub for Windows log
    • Getting a crash dump
    • Uninstalling GitHub for Windows
    • Synchronizing repositories
  • Gaug.es
    • How can I get my Gaug.es receipt?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jobs
    • How to write a great job post
  • Administration
    • What IP addresses does GitHub use that I should whitelist?
  • 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
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    • Supported browsers
    • Name Squatting Policy
    • DMCA Takedown
    • 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

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