Hosting service for software projects using the Git revision control system.
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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown
Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown, but in particular <s>text</s> is not working for me. It works on live preview page (which is now deprecated) but not on preview of ...
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What does starring a repository on GitHub do?
GitHub rolled out their new notifications and stars feature.
But does starring do anything for a repository?
Is it just to show support or interest? Is there any functional purpose to the user?
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Can I associate a github gist with an organization?
My team has a GitHub organization account. A lot of the work I do results in one-off scripts that we want to be able to have on our organization page, but that aren't big enough projects to justify ...
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How do I delete entries from my GitHub Activity Feed?
I prefer my Activity Feed to contain only project-relevant actions (e.g., commits). I recently found my feed polluted with my issue comments. How can I remove specific entries from my GitHub Activity ...
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Anyway to contact a user on Github?
I'd like to contact a developer on Github to see how I can help out, etc. Anyway to do this? I don't see the option anywhere.
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Is there any way to see traffic sources to a Github project?
A lot of people just starred one of my Github projects overnight (yay!). Is there any way for me to figure out where this influx of traffic came from? Does Github provide any kind of analytics?
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How to claim contributions on GitHub
A project I used to work on has recently moved from using self-hosted Subversion to GitHub-hosted git for its source control solution. My name appears in the commits, but I can see no way of claiming ...
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How do you update a GitHub repo fork in the web interface?
I have a Github repository that I forked from some other project several months ago. It is now several months later and the original master repo has changed. I would like to update my repo to reflect ...
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How to delete a file and folder from github.com repository using github.com's web interface?
How to delete a file and folder from github.com repository using github.com's web interface? I searched on Google but haven't found any answer.
I have found about how to do using commands
but I ...
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How do I get an overview of recent activity for a GitHub repository?
For many GitHub repositories, there is a lot of activity going on per day. It would be nice to have an overview of all recent activity going on in the GitHub repository. Is there such a feature ...
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View newsfeed/timeline for a specific GitHub repository
I'm aware GitHub lets you follow multiple repositories with the following features:
Personalized newsfeed of all repos you're watching -- https://github.com
Global timeline of all public repos -- ...
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Online tool showing network graph (as seen on Github) for any Git repo without having to clone?
I love Github's Network graph because it allows to see at a glance what are the trends of a Git repo, without having to clone that repo locally.
PROBLEM: It only works for Github-hosted repos, as ...
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Export Github impact graph to image
I really like Github's impact graph about my Open Source project.
I would like to include it in a presentation, so I would like to download it as an image.
QUESTION: How to export this graph to an ...
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Markdown to insert and display an image on GitHub repo
According to the GitHub documentation, the Markdown syntax for inserting an image is:
Format: 
Following their example syntax, I can't seem to be ...
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How to delete a GitHub wiki page?
I created a wiki page in my project's GitHub repository, for storing some loose notes and links, and GitHub automatically created a wiki page called "Home", containing the text "Welcome to the ...
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How to use a github as a hosting for a small static website?
I have found a project called impress.js on the GitHub.
This project has a cool demo at http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js
How can I use GitHub in a similar way for my projects' demos (or at least ...
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Can I +1 on GitHub without leaving a comment?
On Google Code I can show my support for an issue by starring it (I prefer not to add a comment saying "me too!"). On GitHub I can follow an issue (receive notifications on updates and comments), but ...
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How do I change the email used when I edit a file on GitHub?
GitHub's web-based editor is great for making a quick change to a file. But how can I set the email address used in my commit? I have several email addresses associated with my account. It seems to ...
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Is there a way to set my timezone on github.com?
Whenever I make a comment/issue or commit. The time is off by 10 hours. I believe it is a timezone issue.
Is there a way to change my timezone for my github account?
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Is there a way to have github send commit notifications including the diff?
Does anyone know of a way to have github email commit/pull request notifications including the full diff of the commit?
I know about the email service hook, but that doesn't send the diff.
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How can I list people who have starred my GitHub repository?
I'm curious as to who has starred a GitHub repo of mine, so I'd like a list of users who have starred it. Is this possible to get?
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Can I delete my public GitHub repository?
I have a Git repository hosted publicly on GitHub that I would like to delete. How can I do this?
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Embedding a specific revision of a Gist on GitHub.com via JavaScript
gist.github.com has a great feature where you can embed the current version of a file in a blog via a <script/> tag.
However, I can't seem to embed an older revision, or the current atomic ...
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Github shortcut for formatting code sample
Stack Overflow has a button you can press to indent a block of text four spaces so Markdown will treat it as code. GitHub uses Markdown, too, but does not seem to have formatting buttons.
Does GitHub ...
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How to Remove GitHub Pages?
I was playing about with my git repo and tried the GitHub pages feature but I'm not sure how to get rid of it. The check box on the repo admin is disabled.
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Force GitHub syntax highlighting language on source files
I have some C++ source files in a GitHub repo which have an extension of .C and are using C syntax highlighting, which I don't want.
How can I set GitHub to apply C++ syntax highlighting to these ...
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How do I change which email address GitHub uses for my Gravatar image?
Github currently uses my private email for Gravatar, but I would like it to use one of my work ones instead. However, I cant' find any way to change which email address is used to get the image.
I ...
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Can I enforce a password strength requirement for my team on GitHub?
I am concerned to let any team member in with a weak password on my dev team but I do not see a way to enforce that as a requirement in GitHub. Is this possible?
The concern is that a team members ...
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Merge commit from different fork of the same repo in GitHub
How can I apply pull request that was made for a parent repository of my fork into codebar of my fork. Not sure anyone can understand this question :), I'll try to explain with an an example.
There ...
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On Github, is there a way to get notified when someone merge your pull request?
I like to know if there's anyway to receive email notifications when someone accepts/merges my pull requests.
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Github: new/fixed issues statistics?
JIRA has graphs showing the evolution of created/closed issues:
Does Github have the same kind of graph?
If not, is it available on a third-party website, or generatable via a script?
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Filtering issues without certain tag on Github
Does the current Github issue search engine provide any way for users to search for reports without certain tag?
Classical use-case would be having a granular grouping such as [bug], [enhancement], ...
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How do I refresh repository listing on Coderwall to account for deleted repos?
I have an account on Coderwall, and it lists GitHub repos that I deleted long time ago. As a result, all the links point to 404 pages on Github.
This happens on renaming repositories on GitHub as ...
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How to archive GitHub repositories
GitHub does not allow users to archive repositories and the available plans have fixed limits for the amount of repositories one may have.
If I need to host more repositories than I'm allowed to and ...
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Sort GitHub issues by priority (or by labels)
I maintain projects with hundreds/thousands of issues, and find it impossible to switch to GitHub, because GitHub's issue tracking does not allow sorting.
As a workaround, I use custom labels to set ...
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Internationalization of the GitHub wiki or GitHub Pages?
My project's wiki documentation is on Google Code, but unfortunately on Google Code every new contributor has to be validated by me beforehand, which is a pain. So I am considering switching to the ...
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Upgrade gist to full GitHub project without commandline or IDE
I've been using GitHub's gist feature for some very lightweight HTML + CSS + JavaScript experiments.
I don't have git on my laptop either as a commandline tool or via some IDE. (I'm hitchhiking ...
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Where can I find my applications in LinkedIn profile
In my LinkedIn profile, I am trying to add GitHub application. When I tried, LinkedIn is showing Error
You have reached the limit of applications on your homepage, please remove an application ...
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When I'm looking at a commit on GitHub, how can I tell what branch it's associated with?
If I'm loking at a commit on GitHub (for example), how can I tell what branch that commit is associated with?
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Date of first commit
Given a GitHub repo, how can I quickly find the date of its first commit?
I often want to know how old the project is, but I cannot find a quick way to get to the start of the commit histories for ...
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Find all my github repositories that are forks
I have a lot of repositories on our github account.
I would like to easily find and track repositories that were originally forked, to avoid drifting and remember to send PRs upstream on a regular ...
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How do I force GitHub Enterprise to refresh gravatar?
I updated the gravatar for my e-mail address (a few days ago), but GitHub Enterprise is still displaying the old one. How do I force it to refresh?
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Create a folder in GitHub via the web interface
I want to add a new folder to my newly created GitHub repository without installing the windows setup. Is it possible to do so? I have gone through help which is saying to execute some commands to ...
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How can I do a Google search about github without getting results from public repositories?
I tried to search a private code base on github for a string that included a [*. It gave me a pretty 500 error page so I jumped over to Google and searched for "github search special characters". ...
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Is it possible to use juvia with github pages?
I have just created a new personal blog using GitHub's user pagers. I would like to enable comments using juvia (I do not wish to use services like disqus).
The last step in the installation ...
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How to output raw code in github's wiki?
I want to explain my wiki users how to use internal links. However, when I write [[Linktext|Link to an internal site]] with two `` (code dashes) around them, it gets displayed as a link, but ...
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Embedding simple block diagrams in GitHub wiki
I'd like to add some simple block diagrams to my GitHub wiki. Is there any way to do this without embedding images?
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Automatically watch all GitHub repos forked from my original
A lot of people are forking my GitHub repo and I would like to be able to see what new features they may be working on without having to manually visit each fork to watch.
How to automatically watch ...
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Applying filters to advanced compare view with Github
I'm using the Github compare view on branches (Here's an example, the repo I'm looking at is private: https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/compare/master...commandline )
Is there any way to add ...
