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Sometimes you just need a little help.
Common Issues
- Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- Error: Repository not found
- HTTPS cloning errors
- What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
- Remove sensitive data
- How do I access my organization account?
- What are the different access permissions?
- Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
- Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
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Bootcamp
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Setup
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Using Git
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User Accounts
- Adding an email address to your GitHub account
- Reviewing your security log
- Changing your primary email address
- Changing your GitHub username
- Deleting your user account
- What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
- Publicizing or hiding organization membership
- Permission levels for a user account repository
- What happens when I change my username?
- Remembering your GitHub username or email
- Preventing Unauthorized Access
- Sudo Mode
- Connecting with third-party applications
- What is a strong password?
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Setting up and managing organizations and teams
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Organizations
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Security
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Two-factor Authentication (2FA)
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Repositories
- Integrating JIRA with your projects
- Creating a new repository
- Setting the default branch
- Making a public repository private
- Making a private repository public
- Transferring a repository
- Renaming a repository
- Duplicating a repository
- Deleting a repository
- About Webhooks
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- Can I archive a repository?
- HTTPS cloning errors
- Deleting a private fork of a private user repository
- Issues-only access permissions
- Getting permanent links to files
- Creating and deleting branches within your repository
- Relative links in READMEs
- Section links on READMEs and blob pages
- What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
- Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line
- Error: Repository not found
- Error: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
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Managing Large Files
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Search
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Notifications
- About notifications
- Watching repositories
- Configuring notification emails
- Viewing your feeds
- Receiving email notifications for pushes to a repository
- News Feed
- Unsubscribing from conversations
- Configuring notification delivery methods
- Subscribing to conversations
- Listing watched repositories
- Unwatching repositories
- Managing notifications
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Stars
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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Collaborating
- Using pull requests
- Creating a pull request
- Merging a pull request
- Closing a pull request
- Syncing a fork
- Commenting on the diff of a pull request
- Checking out pull requests locally
- What happens to forks when a repository is deleted or changes visibility?
- Merging an upstream repository into your fork
- Configuring a remote for a fork
- Disabling issues
- Creating an issue
- Issue attachments
- Deleting unused branches
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Managing Repository Collaborators
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Managing Remotes
- About remote repositories
- Adding a remote
- Changing a remote's URL
- Renaming a remote
- Removing a remote
- Which remote URL should I use?
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- Fetching a remote
- Pushing to a remote
- Updating credentials from the OSX Keychain
- Caching your GitHub password in Git
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SSH
- Generating SSH keys
- Keeping your SSH keys and application access tokens safe
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- How do I recover my 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
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GitHub Pages Basics
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GitHub Pages Features
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GitHub Pages Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting GitHub Pages build failures
- Unpublishing a Project Pages site
- Unpublishing a User Pages site
- Using submodules with Pages
- Migrating your Pages site from Maruku
- Page build failed: Invalid submodule
- Page build failed: Missing submodule
- Page build failed: Markdown errors
- Page build failed: Config file error
- Page build failed: Unknown tag error
- Page build failed: Tag not properly terminated
- Page build failed: Tag not properly closed
- Page build failed: File does not exist in includes directory
- Page build failed: File is a symlink
- Page build failed: Symlink does not exist within your site's repository
- Page build failed: File is not properly UTF-8 encoded
- Page build failed: Invalid post date
- Files that start with an underscore are missing
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Writing on GitHub
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Manipulating Files
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Working with non-code files
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Commits
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Gists
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Advanced Git
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Releases
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GitHub for Mac
- First launch
- How do I add repositories?
- Working with repositories
- Making changes
- Viewing previous commits
- Branching out
- How can I push or pull?
- Merging branches
- Resolving merge conflicts
- How do I remove a repository?
- Is there a way to see what Git commands the GitHub for Mac app is executing?
- Does GitHub for Mac support multiple Git remotes or non-GitHub remotes?
- Which versions of OS X are supported by GitHub for Mac?
- Why did my changes disappear when switching branches?
- Error: GitHub Enterprise version is too old
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GitHub for Windows
- Using CAS with GitHub for Windows
- Getting Started with GitHub for Windows
- Do I need to install anything extra?
- Do I need SSH keys to use GitHub for Windows?
- Adding repositories with GitHub for Windows
- Accessing the GitHub for Windows log
- Getting a crash dump
- Synchronizing repositories
- How do I work with branches in GitHub for Windows?
- Does GitHub for Windows support multiple Git remotes or non-GitHub remotes?
- Uninstalling GitHub for Windows
- Windows XP is not supported
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Graphs and Contributions
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Automation
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Wiki
- About GitHub Wikis
- Adding wiki pages via the online interface
- Editing wiki pages via the online interface
- Creating a footer
- Creating a sidebar
- Adding and editing wiki pages locally
- Viewing a wiki's history of changes
- Adding images to wikis
- Adding links to wikis
- Supported MediaWiki formats
- Changing access permissions for wikis
- Disabling wikis
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Importing
