Sometimes you just need a little help.
Common Issues
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- What is my disk quota?
- Why is Git always asking for my password?
- How do I access my organization account?
- What are the limits for viewing content and diffs in my repository?
- Do you have custom plans?
- How do I cancel my account?
- Can I pay with something other than a credit card?
- Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
- Why are my commits linked to the wrong user?
- Error: Invalid login token
- What plan should I choose?
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- Can I add extra information to my receipts?
- What are the different access permissions?
- Error: Repository not found
- HTTPS cloning errors
- Error: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout
- Remove sensitive data
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Bootcamp
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Setup
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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?
- Using git blame to trace changes in a file
- GitHub Flavored Markdown
- Git cheatsheet
- Working when GitHub Goes Down
- Resolving a merge conflict from the command line
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User Accounts
- What's the difference between user and organization accounts?
- How to change your username
- What happens when I change my username?
- Oh noes! I've forgotten my username or email
- How do I change my primary email address?
- Setting up email verification
- Downgrading a user account to free
- Deleting a user account
- What happens if my account is locked?
- Can I merge two accounts?
- Keeping work and personal repositories separate
- Blocking a user
- Unblocking a user
- What happens if my credit card declines?
- Gravatar Problems
- Best practices for leaving your company
- What does the "Available for hire" checkbox do?
- Error: Invalid login token
- Error: user cannot be added as collaborator
- Renaming your user account
- Preventing Unauthorized Access
- Sudo Mode
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Organizations
- Creating a new organization account
- 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?
- How do I remove a team member?
- Removing a user from your organization
- 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?
- How do I delete a fork of my private repository?
- What is the difference between "Create New Organization" and "Turn [Account] Into An Organization"?
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Two-factor Authentication (2FA)
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Billing
- What plan should I choose?
- Do you have custom plans?
- Does GitHub provide invoicing?
- Can I add extra information to my receipts?
- Setting your billing email
- Updating your account's credit card
- Redeeming a coupon
- Finding your next billing date
- Downloading receipts
- How do I cancel my account?
- 500 error while upgrading
- Can I add my credit card number to my receipts?
- What happens to my repositories 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?
- Upgrading your personal account from free to a paid account
- Upgrading your organization account from free to a paid account
- Do you have yearly billing?
- How does upgrading or downgrading affect the billing process?
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Repositories
- Creating a new repository
- Setting the default branch
- Making a public repository private
- Making a private repository public
- How to transfer a repository
- What is transferred with a repository?
- Renaming a repository
- Duplicating a repository
- Deleting a repository
- Post-Receive Hooks
- Testing webhooks
- What is my disk quota?
- What is the size limit for a repository?
- Working with large files
- My repository is marked as the wrong language
- Why isn't my favorite language recognized?
- Can I archive a repository?
- Fixing egit corruption
- HTTPS cloning errors
- 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
- Customizing Issue Labels
- Distributing large binaries
- Support for subversion clients
- Creating and editing files in your repository
- 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?
- 3D File Viewer
- Mapping geoJSON files on GitHub
- 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
- Open source licensing
- Rendering CSV and TSV data
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Search
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Notifications
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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
- Tidying up Pull Requests
- Syncing a fork
- What happens when I remove a collaborator from my private repository?
- Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository
- How do I add a collaborator?
- How do I remove a collaborator?
- Issue attachments
- Adding commit comments
- Checking out Pull Requests locally
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Managing Remotes
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SSH
- Generating SSH Keys
- What are GitHub's SSH key fingerprints?
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- Using SSH over the HTTPS port
- 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
- Error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK
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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
- Should I rename <username.github.com> repositories to <username.github.io>?
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Manipulating Files
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Commits
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Gists
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Advanced Git
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Deploying
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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?
- What is "Sync"?
- 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 run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
- Can I have multiple Git remotes & non-GitHub remotes?
- Why did my changes disappear when switching branches?
- Clone in Desktop doesn't work
- Error: GitHub Enterprise version is too old
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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?
- Can I have multiple Git remotes & non-GitHub remotes?
- Uninstalling GitHub for Windows
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Gaug.es
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Graphs and Contributions
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Automation
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Wiki
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Importing
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Jobs
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Administration
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About GitHub
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Site Policy
