github:help

Sometimes you just need a little help.

Common Issues

Bootcamp
- Set Up Git
- Create A Repo
- Fork A Repo
- Be Social
Setup
- Signing up for a new GitHub account
- Setting your email in git
- Setting your username in git
- Dealing with line endings
- Installing Git HTML help
- Keeping your email address private
Using Git
- Ignoring files
- Using Textmate as your default editor
- Using Sublime Text 2 as your default editor
- Where can I learn more about Git and GitHub?
- What is a good Git workflow?
- What are other good resources for using Git or GitHub?
User Accounts
- What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
- Renaming a user
- How do I change my primary email address?
- Downgrading a user account to free
- Deleting a user account
- What happens if my account is locked?
- Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
- Can I merge two accounts?
- What does the "Available for hire" checkbox do?
- Keeping work and personal repositories separate
- Error: Invalid login token
- Creating an OAuth token for command-line use
- Blocking a user
- Unblocking a user
- Error: user cannot be added as collaborator
- What happens when I change my username?
- Oh noes! I've forgotten my username or email
- What happens if my credit card declines?
- How to change your username
- Gravatar Problems
Organizations
- What is the difference between "Create New Organization" and "Turn [account] Into An Organization"?
- Converting a user into an organization
- Converting an organization into a user
- Error: Cannot log in: "That account is an organization"
- How do I access my organization account?
- Can I create accounts for people in my organization?
- What are the different access permissions?
- How do I set up a team?
- Managing an organization's settings
- Renaming an organization
- Transferring organization ownership
- Removing yourself from an organization
- Downgrading an organization account to free
- Deleting an organization account
- Who can access organization billing information and account settings?
- Can an organization be added to a different organization account?
- Explaining the account transformation warning
- What is the total cost of using an organization account?
Billing
- What plan should I choose?
- Do you have custom plans?
- Does GitHub provide invoicing?
- Setting your billing email
- Updating your account's credit card
- Finding your next billing date
- Downloading receipts
- Redeeming a coupon
- How do I cancel my account?
- 500 error while upgrading
- Could you add my card number to my receipts?
- What happens to my repos if I downgrade to free or my card declines?
- If my account is locked and I upgrade it, do I owe anything for previous time?
- Can I pay with something other than a credit card?
Repositories
- Creating a new repository
- Making a public repository private
- Making a private repository public
- How to transfer a repository
- What is transferred with a repo?
- Duplicating a repo
- Deleting a repo
- Post-Receive Hooks
- Testing webhooks
- What is my disk quota?
- What is the size limit for a repository?
- My repo is marked as the wrong language
- Why isn't my favorite language recognized?
- Can I archive a repository?
- Fixing egit corruption
- HTTPS cloning errors
- Error: The requested URL returned error 401
- Error: The requested URL returned error 403
- Error: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
- Error: Repository not found
- Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
- Downloading files from the command line
- Issues-only access permissions
- How do I get a permanent link from file view to permanent blob url?
- Git over HTTPS using OAuth token
- Repository Notifications
Collaborating
- Using Pull Requests
- Creating a pull request
- Merging a pull request
- Closing a pull request
- Syncing a fork
- Removing yourself from a collaborator's repo
- How do I add a collaborator?
Managing Remotes
- 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
SSH
- Generating SSH Keys
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- Using SSH over the HTTPS port
- 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
- How do I recover my SSH key passphrase?
- Error: Agent admitted failure to sign
Pages
- What are GitHub Pages?
- User, Organization and Project Pages
- Creating Pages with the automatic generator
- Creating Project Pages manually
- Using Jekyll with Pages
- Setting up a custom domain with Pages
- Custom 404 Pages
- Using submodules with Pages
- My custom domain isn't working
- Files that start with an underscore are missing
- Pages don't build: "Unable to run Jekyll"
- Unpublishing a project page
Commits
- How do I get my commits to link to my GitHub account?
- Can I delete a commit message?
- Commit exists on GitHub but not in my local clone
Gists
- Cannot delete an anonymous gist
Advanced Git
- Splitting a subpath out into a new repo
- Interactive rebase
- Changing author info
- Working with subtree merge
- Remove sensitive data
Deploying
- Managing deploy keys
- Using ssh agent forwarding
- Deploying with Capistrano
GitHub for Mac
- Is there a way to see what git commands the GitHub for Mac app is executing?
GitHub for Windows
- Accessing the GitHub for Windows log
- Getting a crash dump
Gaug.es
- How can I get my Gaug.es receipt?
Graphs
- I don't see my contributions in the contributors graph
- Why don't graphs work with IE8?
Wiki
- How do I add images to my wiki?
Importing
- Importing from Subversion
- Importing an external Git repo
Jobs
- How to write a great job post
About GitHub
- I'm developing a third-party GitHub app–what do I need to know?
Site Policy
- GitHub Terms of Service
- GitHub Security
- GitHub Privacy Policy
- GitHub Trademark Policy
- DMCA Takedown
- Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities
- Name Squatting Policy
- Supported browsers