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Repositories

About repositories

Best practices

Best practices for repositories

Creating a new repository

Create from a template

Creating a repository from a template

Create a template repo

Creating a template repository

Issues-only repository

Creating an issues-only repository

Duplicating a repository

Cloning a repository

Troubleshooting cloning errors

Renaming a repository

Transferring a repository

Deleting a repository

Restore deleted repository

Restoring a deleted repository

Create & manage repositories

Creating and managing repositories

About READMEs

Licensing a repository

Social media preview

Customizing your repository's social media preview

Classify with topics

Classifying your repository with topics

About code owners

Repository languages

About repository languages

About CITATION files

Customize your repository

Customizing your repository

Disabling issues

Disable project boards

Disabling project boards in a repository

Manage GitHub Actions settings

Managing GitHub Actions settings for a repository

Discussions

Enabling or disabling GitHub Discussions for a repository

Security & analysis

Managing security and analysis settings for your repository

Enable features

Enabling features for your repository

Repository visibility

Setting repository visibility

Teams & people

Managing teams and people with access to your repository

Manage the forking policy

Managing the forking policy for your repository

Manage the commit signoff policy

Managing the commit signoff policy for your repository

Manage the push policy

Managing the push policy for your repository

Anonymous Git read access

Enabling anonymous Git read access for a repository

Email notifications for pushes

About email notifications for pushes to your repository

Configure autolinks

Configuring autolinks to reference external resources

Tag protection rules

Configuring tag protection rules

Manage repository settings

Managing repository settings

Managing your repository’s settings and features

View branches

Viewing branches in your repository

Renaming a branch

Change the default branch

Changing the default branch

Delete & restore branches

Deleting and restoring branches in a pull request

Manage branches

Managing branches in your repository

About merge methods

About merge methods on GitHub

Configure commit merging

Configuring commit merging for pull requests

Configure commit squashing

Configuring commit squashing for pull requests

Configure commit rebasing

Configuring commit rebasing for pull requests

Manage branch updates

Managing suggestions to update pull request branches

Manage auto merge

Managing auto-merge for pull requests in your repository

Automatic branch deletion

Managing the automatic deletion of branches

Configure PR merges

Configuring pull request merges

About protected branches

Branch protection rule

Managing a branch protection rule

Required status checks

Troubleshooting required status checks

Manage protected branches

Managing protected branches

Branches and merges

Configuring branches and merges in your repository

Creating new files

Add a file

Adding a file to a repository

Move a file

Moving a file to a new location

Edit files

Editing files

Renaming a file

Delete files

Deleting files in a repository

How changed files appear

Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub

Managing files

View files and track file changes

Viewing a file

Permanent links to files

Getting permanent links to files

Source code archives

Downloading source code archives

Working with non-code files

Using files

Large files

About large files on GitHub

Git Large File Storage

About Git Large File Storage

Install Git LFS

Installing Git Large File Storage

Configure Git LFS

Configuring Git Large File Storage

Collaboration

Collaboration with Git Large File Storage

Move a file to Git LFS

Moving a file in your repository to Git Large File Storage

Remove files

Removing files from Git Large File Storage

Resolve upload failures

Resolving Git Large File Storage upload failures

Managing large files

Work with files

Working with files

About releases

Manage releases

Managing releases in a repository

View releases & tags

Viewing your repository's releases and tags

Searching releases

Searching a repository's releases

Linking to releases

Comparing releases

Automated release notes

Automatically generated release notes

Automate release forms

Automation for release forms with query parameters

Release projects

Releasing projects on GitHub

View deployment activity

Viewing deployment activity for your repository

About repository graphs

Using Pulse

Using Pulse to view a summary of repository activity

View project contributors

Viewing a project's contributors

Analyze changes

Analyzing changes to a repository's content

Connections between repositories

Understanding connections between repositories

View activity and data

Viewing activity and data for your repository

Archiving repositories

Backing up a repository

Archive a repository

Archiving a GitHub repository

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