Tracking your work with issues

Use GitHub Issues to track ideas, feedback, tasks, or bugs for work on GitHub.

Follow this brief interactive guide to learn about GitHub Issues.

Issues can be created in a variety of ways, so you can choose the most convenient method for your workflow.

You can link a pull request or branch to an issue to show that a fix is in progress and to automatically close the issue when the pull request or branch is merged.

You can create a branch to work on an issue directly from the issue page and get started right away.

Assignees clarify who is working on specific issues and pull requests.

The Issues and Pull Request dashboards list the open issues and pull requests you've created. You can use them to update items that have gone stale, close them, or keep track of where you've been mentioned across all repositories—including those you're not subscribed to.

To find detailed information about a repository on GitHub Enterprise Server, you can filter, sort, and search issues and pull requests that are relevant to the repository.

Mark an issue or pull request as a duplicate to track similar issues or pull requests together and remove unnecessary burden for both maintainers and collaborators.

You can pin up to three important issues above the issues list in your repository.

To move an issue to a better fitting repository, you can transfer open issues to other repositories.

You can close an issue when bugs are fixed, feedback is acted on, or to show that work is not planned.

People with admin permissions in a repository can permanently delete an issue from a repository.

The essentials for using GitHub's planning and tracking tools to manage work on a team or project.