Sometimes you just need a little help.
Common Issues
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- How do I access my organization account?
- Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
- How do I cancel my account?
- What are the different access permissions?
- Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
- Can I pay with something other than a credit card?
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- HTTPS cloning errors
- How can I add extra information to my receipts?
- What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
- Error: Repository not found
- Do you have custom plans?
- What is my disk quota?
- Remove sensitive data
- What plan should I choose?
- Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
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Bootcamp
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Setup
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Using Git
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User Accounts
- Changing your primary email address
- Changing your GitHub username
- Merging multiple user accounts
- Deleting your user account
- What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
- Permission levels for a user account repository
- What happens when I change my username?
- Remembering your GitHub username or email
- What happens if my repository is locked?
- Blocking a user
- Unblocking a user
- Best practices for leaving your company
- What does the "Available for hire" checkbox do?
- Verifying your email address
- Preventing Unauthorized Access
- Sudo Mode
- Connecting with third party applications
- What is a strong password?
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Organizations
- Permission levels for an organization repository
- Creating a new organization account
- How do I access my organization account?
- Preventing unauthorized access to organization information
- Converting a user into an organization
- Can I create accounts for people in my organization?
- Converting an organization into a user
- 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
- Gravatar Problems
- 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
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Security
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Two-factor Authentication (2FA)
- About Two-Factor Authentication
- Changing two-factor authentication delivery methods
- Downloading your two-factor authentication recovery codes
- Setting a fallback authentication number
- Configuring two-factor authentication via text message
- Configuring two-factor authentication via a TOTP mobile app
- Providing your 2FA authentication code
- Recovering your account if you lost your 2FA credentials
- Countries where SMS authentication is supported
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Billing
- What plan should I choose?
- Updating your organization's credit card
- Unlocking a locked account
- 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
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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
- Viewing branches in your repository
- Can I archive a repository?
- 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
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Search
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Notifications
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Stars
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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Collaborating
- Using pull requests
- Creating a pull request
- Merging a pull request
- Closing a pull request
- Reverting a pull request
- Deleting unused branches
- Syncing a fork
- Where can I find Open Source projects to work on?
- What happens when I remove a member from a team in my organization?
- Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository
- Issue attachments
- Adding commit comments
- Checking out pull requests locally
- Locking conversations
- What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?
- Merging an upstream repository into your fork
- Configuring a remote for a fork
- Adding collaborators to a personal repository
- Removing a collaborator from a personal repository
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Managing Remotes
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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
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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
- Setting up a custom domain with GitHub Pages
- Further reading on GitHub Pages
- Tips for configuring a CNAME record with your DNS provider
- Tips for configuring an A record with your DNS provider
- Adding a CNAME file to your repository
- About custom domains for GitHub Pages sites
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GitHub Pages Features
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GitHub Pages Troubleshooting
- My custom domain isn't working
- Unpublishing a Project Pages site
- Unpublishing a User Pages site
- Should I rename <username.github.com> repositories to <username.github.io>?
- Using submodules with Pages
- Troubleshooting GitHub Pages build failures
- 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
- Files that start with an underscore are missing
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Writing on GitHub
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Manipulating Files
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Working with non-code files
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Commits
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Gists
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Advanced Git
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Releases
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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
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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
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Graphs and Contributions
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Automation
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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
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Importing
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Jobs
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Administration
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About GitHub
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Site Policy
