Labels can be applied to issues and pull requests to signify priority, category, or any other information that you find useful.

  1. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Issues or Pull Requests tab selectionIn the repository's right sidebar, click Issues or Pull requests.

  3. Issues Labels buttonIn the upper-left corner, click Labels.

  4. Click New Label to create a new label, or click Edit to edit an existing one.

  5. Issues new label textboxIn the text box, type your new label name.
  6. Issues new label textboxSelect a color for the label from the color bar. You can customize this color by editing the hexadecimal number above the color bar.
  7. Click Create Label to save the new label.

Deleting labels

  1. highlighted usernameIn the top right corner of any page, click your username.

  2. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  3. Issues or Pull Requests tab selectionIn the repository's right sidebar, click Issues or Pull requests.

  4. Issues Labels buttonIn the upper-left corner, click Labels.

  5. Click Delete.

When a label is deleted, issues and pull requests are not affected.

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