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- Authentication
- GitHub Copilot
- Your enterprise
  - Manage your enterprise
    About enterprise accounts
    Verify or approve a domain
    Visual Studio bundle
    Connect an Azure subscription
  - Manage users
    Roles in an enterprise
    Invite people to manage
    Manage support entitlements
    View people in your enterprise
    View & manage SAML access
  - Manage organizations
    Add organizations
    Manage unowned organizations
    View organization audit logs
    Configure webhooks
  - Configure IAM
    IAM for your enterprise
    Enforce SAML
    Configure SAML with Okta
    Manage team synchronization
  - Set organization policies
    Policies for repositories
    Policies for projects
    Enforce team policies
    Enforce security settings
    Restrict email notifications
    Policy for dependency insights
    Policies for GitHub Actions
    Configure Actions retention
    Policies for Advanced Security
- Writing on GitHub
  - Start writing on GitHub
    Write & format on GitHub
    Basic formatting syntax
  - Work with advanced formatting
    Organized data with tables
    Create code blocks
    Auto linked references
    Attaching files
    Permanent links to code
    Using keywords in issues and pull requests
  - Work with saved replies
    About saved replies
    Creating a saved reply
    Editing a saved reply
    Deleting a saved reply
    Using saved replies
  - Share content with gists
    Creating gists
    Forking and cloning gists
- Create, clone & archive
  - Create a repository
    About repositories
    Repository visibility
    Creating a new repository
    Create from a template
    About READMEs
    About code owners
    Repository languages
    Licensing a repository
    About CITATION files
    Create a template repo
    Issues-only repository
    Content & diffs limits
    Duplicating a repository
  - Clone a repository
    Cloning a repository
    HTTPS cloning errors
    Repository not found
    Unable to checkout
  - Archive a repository
    Repositories
    Archiving repositories
    Archive content & data
    Reference & cite content
    Backing up a repository
- Commit changes to your project
  - Create & edit commits
    About commits
    With multiple authors
    On behalf of an organization
    Changing a commit message
  - View & compare commits
    Branch & tag labels
    Comparing commits
    Commit views
  - Troubleshooting commits
    Commit missing in local clone
    Linked to wrong user
- Collaborate with pull requests
  - Getting started
    Collaborative development
  - Working with forks
    About forks
    Configure a remote
    Syncing a fork
    Merge an upstream repo
    Allow changes to a branch
    Deleted or changes visibility
  - Code quality features
    About status checks
  - Propose changes
    About branches
    Create & delete branches
    About pull requests
    Compare branches
    Creating a pull request
    Create a PR from a fork
    Using query parameters to create a pull request
    Change the state
    Request a PR review
    Change the base branch
    Commit to PR branch from fork
  - Address merge conflicts
    About merge conflicts
    Resolve merge conflicts
    Resolve merge conflicts in Git
  - Review changes
    About PR reviews
    Review proposed changes
    Filter files
    Methods & functions
    Comment on a PR
    View a PR review
    Review dependency changes
    Incorporate feedback
    Required reviews
    Dismiss a PR review
    Check out a PR locally
  - Incorporate changes
    About pull request merges
    Merging a pull request
    Merge PR automatically
    Closing a pull request
    Reverting a pull request
- Search on GitHub
  - Start with search on GitHub
    About searching on GitHub
    Understand search syntax
    Troubleshoot search queries
    Sorting search results
    Enable search for GitHub.com
  - Searching on GitHub
    Finding files on GitHub
    Search for repositories
    Searching topics
    Searching code
    Searching commits
    Search issues & PRs
    Searching discussions
    Search GitHub Marketplace
    Searching users
    Searching for packages
    Searching wikis
    Searching in forks
- Importing your projects
  - Import code to GitHub
    About GitHub Importer
    Use GitHub Importer
    Update author GitHub Importer
    Import repo locally
    Add a project locally
    Code migration tools
  - Work with Subversion on GitHub
    Subversion & Git differences
    Support for Subversion clients
    Properties supported by GitHub
- Administer a repo
  - Manage repository settings
    Repository visibility
    Teams & people
    Classify with topics
    How changed files appear
    Email notifications for pushes
    Display a sponsor button
    Social media preview
    View deployment activity
    Manage the forking policy
    Set log retention for Actions
    GitHub Actions
    Discussions
    Disable project boards
    Disabling issues
    Managing Git LFS objects in archives
    Security & analysis
    Configure autolinks
    Renaming a repository
    Transferring a repository
    Deleting a repository
    Restore deleted repository
  - Manage branches
    View branches
    Renaming a branch
    Change the default branch
    Delete & restore
  - Configure PR merges
    Merge methods
    Configure commit squashing
    Configure commit rebasing
    Manage auto merge
    Automatic branch deletion
  - Mergeability of PRs
    About protected branches
    Branch protection rule
    Required status checks
  - Release projects
    About releases
    Manage releases
    View releases & tags
    Linking to releases
    Comparing releases
    Automate release forms
  - Find information in a repo
    Filter issues & PRs
    Filter by assignee
    Filter by labels
    Filter by review status
    Sort issues & PRs
    Use search to filter
    Sharing filters
- View repository graphs
  - Access basic repository data
    About repository graphs
    View repository activity
    View project contributors
    View traffic to a repository
  - Analyze changes to repository
    View commits in repository
    View changes to content
  - Connections between repos
    View repository network
    List repository forks
    View dependencies
- Manage files in a repository
  - Managing files on GitHub
    Navigating code on GitHub
    Creating new files
    Add a file
    Move a file
    Edit your files
    Edit another user's files
    Track file changes
    Delete files
    Renaming a file
    Permanent links to files
  - Manage files locally
    Add a file locally
    Rename a file locally
    Move a file locally
  - Work with non-code files
    Render & diff images
    3D File Viewer
    Render CSV & TSV data
    Rendering PDF documents
    Differences in prose
    Mapping geoJSON files
    Jupyter Notebook files
- Managing large files
  - Working with large files
    Large file conditions
    Remove repository history
    Distribute large binaries
    What is my disk quota?
  - Versioning large files
    Git Large File Storage
    Install Git LFS
    Configure Git LFS
    Storage & bandwidth
    Collaboration
    Move a file to Git LFS
    Remove files
    Resolve upload failures
- Customize your workflow
  - Exploring integrations
    About integrations
    About GitHub Marketplace
    Extensions & integrations
  - Install Marketplace apps
    Install app user account
    Install app organization
- Extending GitHub
- GitHub Support
- How GitHub protects data
- Site policy

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