GitHub Enterprise Server 2.15

Getting started with GitHub

• Set up Git
• Create a repo
• Fork a repo
• Be social

Learning about GitHub

• Types of GitHub accounts
• Access permissions on GitHub
• 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

Setting up and managing your GitHub user account

Managing user account settings

• About your personal dashboard
• Changing your GitHub username
• Deleting your user account
• Permission levels for a user account repository
• 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

Setting up and managing your GitHub profile

Customizing your profile

• About your profile
• About your organization's profile
• Personalizing your profile
• 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

Authenticating to GitHub

Keeping your account and data secure

• Creating a strong password
• Updating your GitHub access credentials
• Creating a personal access token for the command line
• 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

Receiving notifications about activity on GitHub

Getting started with notifications

• About notifications
• About web notifications
• About email notifications
• Accessing your notifications
• Choosing the delivery method for your notifications
• About your organization’s news feed

Managing your notifications

• Marking notifications as read
• Subscribing to and unsubscribing from notifications
• Watching and unwatching repositories
• Watching and unwatching team discussions
• Listing the repositories you're watching
• About email notifications for pushes to your repository

Setting up and managing 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

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
• Changing a person's role to owner
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Allowing people to fork private repositories 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

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
• Creating a new repository
• About READMEs
• About code owners
• About repository languages
• Licensing a 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 password in Git
• Why is Git always asking for my password?
• Updating credentials from the OSX 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

• Changing author info
• 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

• Creating a commit with multiple authors
• Changing a commit message

Viewing and comparing commits

• Commit branch and tag labels
• Comparing commits across time
• 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?
• Why are my commits in the wrong order?

Collaborating with issues and pull requests

• 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
• 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
• Finding changed methods and functions in a pull request
• Commenting on a pull request
• Viewing a pull request review
• 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
• Opening an issue from code
• 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
• Closing issues using keywords
• 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 support resources to your project
• Adding a license to a repository

Using issue and pull request templates

• About issue and pull request templates
• Creating issue templates for your repository
• Creating a pull request template for your repository
• Manually creating a single issue template for your repository

Collaborating with your team

• About team discussions
• Creating a team discussion
• Editing or deleting a team discussion
• Pinning a team discussion

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

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
• Searching for repositories
• Searching topics
• Searching code
• Searching commits
• Searching issues and pull requests
• Searching users
• Searching wikis
• Searching in forks

Importing your projects to GitHub

Importing source code to GitHub

• Importing a Git repository using the command line
• Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line
• Source code migration tools

Working with Subversion on GitHub

• What are the differences between Subversion and Git?
• Support for Subversion clients
• Subversion properties supported by GitHub

Administering a repository

Managing repository settings

• Setting repository visibility
• Classifying your repository with topics
• Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub
• Allowing people to fork a private repository owned by your organization
• Enabling anonymous Git read access for a repository
• Renaming a repository
• Transferring a repository
• Deleting a repository

Managing branches in your repository

• Setting the default branch
• Viewing branches in your repository
• Deleting and restoring branches in a pull request

Configuring pull request merges

• About merge methods on GitHub
• Configuring commit squashing for pull requests
• Configuring commit rebasing for pull requests

Defining the mergeability of pull requests

• About protected branches
• Configuring protected branches
• About required status checks
• Types of required status checks
• Enabling required status checks
• About branch restrictions
• Enabling branch restrictions
• About required reviews for pull requests
• Enabling required reviews for pull requests
• About required commit signing
• Enabling required commit signing

Managing releases in a repository

• About releases
• Creating releases
• Getting the download count for your releases
• Editing and deleting releases
• Viewing your repository's tags
• Linking to releases

Visualizing repository data with graphs

Accessing basic repository data

• About repository graphs
• Viewing a summary of repository activity
• Viewing a project's contributors

Analyzing changes to a repository's content

• Visualizing commits in a repository
• Visualizing additions and deletions to content in a repository

Understanding connections between repositories

• Viewing a repository's network
• Listing the forks of a repository

Managing files in a repository

Managing files on GitHub

• Creating new files
• Adding a file to a repository
• Moving a file to a new location
• Editing files in your repository
• Editing files in another user's repository
• Tracking changes in a file
• Deleting files
• Initializing an empty repository with a README
• Renaming a file
• Getting permanent links to files

Managing files using the command line

• Adding a file to a repository using the command line
• Renaming a file using the command line
• Moving a file to a new location using the command line

Working with non-code files

• Rendering and diffing images
• 3D File Viewer
• Rendering CSV and TSV data
• Rendering PDF documents
• Rendering differences in prose documents
• Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
• Working with Jupyter Notebook files on GitHub

Managing large files

Working with large files

• Conditions for large files
• Removing files from a repository's history
• Distributing large binaries

Versioning large files

• About Git Large File Storage
• Installing Git Large File Storage
• Configuring Git Large File Storage
• Collaboration with Git Large File Storage
• Moving a file in your repository to Git Large File Storage
• Removing files from Git Large File Storage
• Resolving Git Large File Storage upload failures

Extending GitHub

• Getting started with the API
• Git automation with OAuth tokens
• About webhooks

Working with GitHub Pages

Getting started with GitHub Pages

• About GitHub Pages
• Creating a GitHub Pages site
• Configuring a publishing source for your GitHub Pages site
• Creating a custom 404 page for your GitHub Pages site
• Unpublishing a GitHub Pages site

Setting up a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll

• About GitHub Pages and Jekyll
• Creating a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll
• Testing your GitHub Pages site locally with Jekyll
• Adding content to your GitHub Pages site using Jekyll
• Setting a Markdown processor for your GitHub Pages site using Jekyll
• Adding a theme to your GitHub Pages site using Jekyll
• About Jekyll build errors for GitHub Pages sites
• Troubleshooting Jekyll build errors for GitHub Pages sites