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    • Getting started
      • Quickstart
        • Set up Git
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      • Learning about GitHub
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        • GitHub Desktop
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        • GitHub glossary
        • Git cheatsheet
        • Git and GitHub learning resources
      • Signing up for GitHub
        • Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud
        • Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Server
      • Exploring projects on GitHub
        • Saving repositories with stars
        • Following people
      • Using GitHub
        • Supported browsers
        • Keyboard shortcuts
    • User accounts
      • Managing user account settings
        • About your personal dashboard
        • Changing your GitHub username
        • Converting a user into an organization
        • Deleting your user account
        • Permission levels for a user account repository
        • Permission levels for user-owned project boards
        • Managing access to your user account's project boards
        • Integrating Jira with your personal projects
      • Managing email preferences
        • Adding an email address to your GitHub account
        • Changing your primary email address
        • Setting a backup email address
        • Setting your commit email address
        • Remembering your GitHub username or email
      • Managing access to your personal repositories
        • Inviting collaborators to a personal repository
        • Removing a collaborator from a personal repository
        • Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository
      • Managing your membership in organizations
        • About organization membership
        • Accessing an organization
        • Viewing people's roles in an organization
        • Publicizing or hiding organization membership
        • Removing yourself from an organization
    • Profiles
      • Customizing your profile
        • About your profile
        • About your organization's profile
        • Personalizing your profile
        • Managing your profile README
        • Pinning items to your profile
      • Managing contribution graphs on your profile
        • Viewing contributions on your profile
        • Showing an overview of your activity on your profile
        • Publicizing or hiding your private contributions on your profile
        • Sending your GitHub Enterprise Server contributions to your GitHub.com profile
        • Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
        • Troubleshooting commits on your timeline
    • Authentication
      • Keeping your account and data secure
        • About authentication to GitHub
        • Creating a strong password
        • Updating your GitHub access credentials
        • Creating a personal access token
        • Reviewing your SSH keys
        • Reviewing your deploy keys
        • Authorizing OAuth Apps
        • Reviewing your authorized integrations
        • Connecting with third-party applications
        • Reviewing your authorized applications (OAuth)
        • Reviewing your security log
        • Removing sensitive data from a repository
        • Sudo mode
        • Preventing unauthorized access
      • Securing your account with two-factor authentication (2FA)
        • About two-factor authentication
        • Configuring two-factor authentication
        • Configuring two-factor authentication recovery methods
        • Accessing GitHub using two-factor authentication
        • Recovering your account if you lose your 2FA credentials
        • Disabling two-factor authentication for your personal account
      • Connecting to GitHub with SSH
        • About SSH
        • Checking for existing SSH keys
        • Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent
        • Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account
        • Testing your SSH connection
        • Working with SSH key passphrases
      • Troubleshooting SSH
        • Recovering your 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: ssh-add: illegal option -- K
        • Error: We're doing an SSH key audit
      • Managing commit signature verification
        • About commit signature verification
        • Checking for existing GPG keys
        • Generating a new GPG key
        • Adding a new GPG key to your GitHub account
        • Telling Git about your signing key
        • Associating an email with your GPG key
        • Signing commits
        • Signing tags
      • Troubleshooting commit signature verification
        • Checking your commit and tag signature verification status
        • Updating an expired GPG key
        • Using a verified email address in your GPG key
    • Managing subscriptions and notifications on GitHub
      • Setting up notifications
        • About notifications
        • Configuring notifications
      • Viewing and triaging notifications
        • Managing notifications from your inbox
        • Triaging a single notification
        • Customizing a workflow for triaging your notifications
      • Managing subscriptions for activity on GitHub
        • Viewing your subscriptions
        • Managing your subscriptions
    • Organizations and teams
      • Collaborating with groups in organizations
        • About organizations
        • About your organization dashboard
        • Creating a new organization from scratch
        • Accessing your organization's settings
        • About your organization’s news feed
      • Managing membership in your organization
        • Adding people to your organization
        • Removing a member from your organization
        • Reinstating a former member of your organization
      • Managing people's access to your organization with roles
        • Permission levels for an organization
        • Maintaining ownership continuity for your organization
        • Giving "team maintainer" permissions to an organization member
      • Organizing members into teams
        • About teams
        • Creating a team
        • Setting your team's profile picture
        • Adding organization members to a team
        • Managing code review assignment for your team
        • Renaming a team
        • Changing team visibility
        • Moving a team in your organization’s hierarchy
        • Requesting to add a child team
        • Requesting to add or change a parent team
        • Removing organization members from a team
        • Disabling team discussions for your organization
        • Deleting a team
      • Managing access to your organization's repositories
        • Repository permission levels for an organization
        • Setting base permissions for an organization
        • Viewing people with access to your repository
        • Managing an individual's access to an organization repository
        • Managing team access to an organization repository
        • Adding outside collaborators to repositories in your organization
        • Removing an outside collaborator from an organization repository
        • Converting an organization member to an outside collaborator
        • Converting an outside collaborator to an organization member
        • Reinstating a former outside collaborator's access to your organization
      • Managing access to your organization’s project boards
        • Project board permissions for an organization
        • Managing access to a project board for organization members
        • Managing team access to an organization project board
        • Managing an individual’s access to an organization project board
        • Adding an outside collaborator to a project board in your organization
        • Removing an outside collaborator from an organization project board
      • Managing access to your organization's apps
        • Adding GitHub App managers in your organization
        • Removing GitHub App managers from your organization
      • Managing organization settings
        • Renaming an organization
        • Transferring organization ownership
        • Restricting repository creation in your organization
        • Setting permissions for deleting or transferring repositories
        • Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization
        • Managing the forking policy for your organization
        • Disabling or limiting GitHub Actions for your organization
        • Setting permissions for adding outside collaborators
        • Allowing people to delete issues in your organization
        • Setting team creation permissions in your organization
        • Managing default labels for repositories in your organization
        • Managing the display of member names in your organization
        • Deleting an organization account
        • Converting an organization into a user
        • Integrating Jira with your organization project board
      • Migrating to improved organization permissions
        • Converting an Owners team to improved organization permissions
        • Converting an admin team to improved organization permissions
        • Migrating admin teams to improved organization permissions
      • Keeping your organization secure
        • Viewing whether users in your organization have 2FA enabled
        • Preparing to require two-factor authentication in your organization
        • Requiring two-factor authentication in your organization
        • Reviewing the audit log for your organization
        • Reviewing your organization's installed integrations
      • Managing Git access to your organization's repositories
        • About SSH certificate authorities
        • Managing your organization's SSH certificate authorities
    • Writing on GitHub
      • Getting started with writing and formatting on GitHub
        • About writing and formatting on GitHub
        • Basic writing and formatting syntax
      • Working with advanced formatting
        • Organizing information with tables
        • Creating and highlighting code blocks
        • Autolinked references and URLs
      • Working with saved replies
        • About saved replies
        • Creating a saved reply
        • Editing a saved reply
        • Deleting a saved reply
        • Using saved replies
      • Editing and sharing content with gists
        • Creating gists
        • Forking and cloning gists
    • Creating, cloning, and archiving repositories
      • Creating a repository on GitHub
        • About repositories
        • About repository visibility
        • Creating a new repository
        • Creating a repository from a template
        • About READMEs
        • About code owners
        • About repository languages
        • Licensing a repository
        • Creating a template repository
        • Creating an issues-only repository
        • Limits for viewing content and diffs in a repository
        • Duplicating a repository
      • Cloning a repository from GitHub
        • Cloning a repository
        • HTTPS cloning errors
        • Error: Repository not found
        • Error: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
      • Archiving a GitHub repository
        • About archiving repositories
        • Archiving repositories
        • Backing up a repository
    • Using Git
      • Getting started with Git and GitHub
        • Setting your username in Git
        • Caching your GitHub credentials in Git
        • Why is Git always asking for my password?
        • Updating credentials from the macOS Keychain
      • Learning about Git
        • Git workflows
        • Associating text editors with Git
        • Configuring Git to handle line endings
        • Ignoring files
      • Using common Git commands
        • Pushing commits to a remote repository
        • Getting changes from a remote repository
        • Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
      • Managing remote repositories
        • About remote repositories
        • Which remote URL should I use?
        • Adding a remote
        • Changing a remote's URL
        • Renaming a remote
        • Removing a remote
      • Using advanced Git commands
        • About Git rebase
        • Using Git rebase on the command line
        • Resolving merge conflicts after a Git rebase
        • About Git subtree merges
        • Splitting a subfolder out into a new repository
    • Committing changes to your project
      • Creating and editing commits
        • About commits
        • Creating a commit with multiple authors
        • Changing a commit message
      • Viewing and comparing commits
        • Commit branch and tag labels
        • Comparing commits
        • Differences between commit views
      • Troubleshooting commits
        • Commit exists on GitHub but not in my local clone
        • Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
    • Collaborating with issues and pull requests
      • Overview
        • GitHub flow
        • About collaborative development models
        • About conversations on GitHub
      • Working with forks
        • About forks
        • Configuring a remote for a fork
        • Syncing a fork
        • Merging an upstream repository into your fork
        • Allowing changes to a pull request branch created from a fork
        • What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?
      • Collaborating on repositories with code quality features
        • About status checks
        • Working with pre-receive hooks
      • Proposing changes to your work with pull requests
        • About branches
        • Creating and deleting branches within your repository
        • About pull requests
        • About comparing branches in pull requests
        • Creating a pull request
        • Creating a pull request from a fork
        • Changing the stage of a pull request
        • Requesting a pull request review
        • Changing the base branch of a pull request
        • Committing changes to a pull request branch created from a fork
      • Addressing merge conflicts
        • About merge conflicts
        • Resolving a merge conflict on GitHub
        • Resolving a merge conflict using the command line
      • Reviewing changes in pull requests
        • About pull request reviews
        • Reviewing proposed changes in a pull request
        • Filtering files in a pull request
        • Finding changed methods and functions in a pull request
        • Commenting on a pull request
        • Viewing a pull request review
        • Incorporating feedback in your pull request
        • Approving a pull request with required reviews
        • Dismissing a pull request review
        • Checking out pull requests locally
      • Incorporating changes from a pull request
        • About pull request merges
        • Merging a pull request
        • Closing a pull request
        • Reverting a pull request
    • Managing your work on GitHub
      • Managing your work with issues
        • About issues
        • Creating an issue
        • Deleting an issue
        • Opening an issue from a comment
        • Opening an issue from code
        • Transferring an issue to another repository
        • Pinning an issue to your repository
        • Creating a permanent link to a code snippet
        • About task lists
        • About automation for issues and pull requests with query parameters
        • File attachments on issues and pull requests
        • Assigning issues and pull requests to other GitHub users
        • Viewing all of your issues and pull requests
        • Disabling issues
        • Linking a pull request to an issue
        • About duplicate issues and pull requests
      • Labeling issues and pull requests
        • About labels
        • Creating a label
        • Applying labels to issues and pull requests
        • Editing a label
        • Deleting a label
      • Managing project boards
        • About project boards
        • Creating a project board
        • Editing a project board
        • Linking a repository to a project board
        • About automation for project boards
        • Configuring automation for project boards
        • Closing a project board
        • Reopening a closed project board
        • Deleting a project board
        • Disabling project boards in a repository
        • Disabling project boards in your organization
        • Changing project board visibility
      • Tracking the progress of your work with project boards
        • Adding issues and pull requests to a project board
        • Adding notes to a project board
        • Tracking progress on your project board
        • Filtering cards on a project board
        • Archiving cards on a project board
      • Tracking the progress of your work with milestones
        • About milestones
        • Creating and editing milestones for issues and pull requests
        • Associating milestones with issues and pull requests
        • Filtering issues and pull requests by milestone
        • Viewing your milestone's progress
      • Finding information in a repository
        • Filtering issues and pull requests
        • Filtering issues and pull requests by assignees
        • Filtering issues and pull requests by labels
        • Filtering pull requests by review status
        • Sorting issues and pull requests
        • Using search to filter issues and pull requests
        • Sharing filters
    • Building a strong community
      • Setting up your project for healthy contributions
        • Setting guidelines for repository contributors
        • Adding a license to a repository
        • Adding support resources to your project
        • Creating a default community health file
      • Using templates to encourage useful issues and pull requests
        • About issue and pull request templates
        • Configuring issue templates for your repository
        • Creating a pull request template for your repository
        • Manually creating a single issue template for your repository
      • Moderating comments and conversations
        • Managing disruptive comments
        • Locking conversations
        • Tracking changes in a comment
      • Documenting your project with wikis
        • About wikis
        • Adding or editing wiki pages
        • Creating a footer or sidebar for your wiki
        • Editing wiki content
        • Viewing a wiki's history of changes
        • Changing access permissions for wikis
        • Disabling wikis
      • Collaborating with your team
        • About team discussions
        • Creating a team discussion
        • Editing or deleting a team discussion
        • Pinning a team discussion
    • Searching for information on GitHub
      • Getting started with searching on GitHub
        • About searching on GitHub
        • Understanding the search syntax
        • Troubleshooting search queries
        • Sorting search results
        • Enabling GitHub.com repository search in GitHub Enterprise Server
      • Searching on GitHub
        • Finding files on GitHub