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Creating a pull request template for your repository
When you add a pull request template to your repository, project contributors will automatically see the template's contents in the pull request body.
Adding a license to a repository
You can include an open source license in your repository to make it easier for other people to contribute.
Configuring issue templates for your repository
You can customize the templates that are available for contributors to use when they open new issues in your repository.
Using templates to encourage useful issues and pull requests
- About issue and pull request templates
- Configuring issue templates for your repository
- Syntax for issue forms
- Syntax for GitHub's form schema
- Creating a pull request template for your repository
- Manually creating a single issue template for your repository
- Common validation errors when creating issue forms