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Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?
Using the search box at the top of GitHub web pages, you can perform a variety of searches.
To view issues you've commented on use the following search string:
Sample Search URL
is:issue commenter:@...
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GitHub - What's this "Pro" tag on my profile?
PRO tag refers to https://github.com/pro
GitHub today (07.01.2019) announced that it is changing the name of the GitHub Developer suite to GitHub Pro. The company says it’s doing so in order to "help ...
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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown
I know this is an old question, but I don't see a very detailed answer of the possibilities to strikethrough your text. So here's my answer:
There are several ways to do it:
<strike>strike</...
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Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?
You can filter your subscribed notifications for only those where you commented on a thread, by selecting Comment as the Reason at github.com/notifications/subscriptions or by appending ?reason=...
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GitHub - What's this "Pro" tag on my profile?
Someone who has the pro plan on github https://github.com/pricing
or someone who is on an educational plan, because you get pro privileges.
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How can I list people who have starred my GitHub repository?
These information is now available in the About section of the repository on the right side of the page beside the code section. The numbers before 'star' and 'watching' are clickable.
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Caching assets in website served from GitHub pages
Officially confirmed to be impossible.
Answer from GitHub support:
Thanks for reaching out to GitHub Support about using GitHub Pages
We set the following Cache-Control header for all GitHub Pages ...
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Analytics on GitHub pages
No.
The only way to track analytics for a GitHub Pages page/site is via a third-party service such as Clicky, Google Analytics, Gauges, Plausible, etc.
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Any way to contact a user on GitHub?
This method worked in August 2022
Copy and paste the next line into your browser (feel free to
bookmark it): https://api.github.com/users/xxxxxxx/events/public.
Find the GitHub username for which you ...
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GitHub - What's this "Pro" tag on my profile?
This update came with the "New year, new GitHub" blog post.
It indicates you got the "GitHub Pro" plan. (it used to be called "GitHub Developer" pack)
GitHub Developer is now called GitHub Pro. It ...
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Can I view all time all repo commits of a user at GitHub?
You can now do this by prepending the prefix "author:" to a username in the search box. Or modify and use this URL directly: https://github.com/search?q=author:the_username
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Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?
Easier and improve from the accepted answer:
is:issue commenter:@me
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Is GitHub shadowbanning my account by returning 404 to other users who access my profile?
This happens when you account is marked as "spammy", usually automatically based on your email address or IP address. You can verify your account has been marked as spammy by going to https:/...
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How can I delete my posted issue on GitHub?
Although you can't delete issue, you can delete your sensitive information by edit
Deleting sensitive information from a comment's history
When you delete sensitive information from the comment's ...
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How to search with boolean operators on GitHub?
The default search works as though there is an implied AND operator between each search key-value pair:
is:pr is:open author:monishdeb
If you specify more than one key-value pair for a key, it uses ...
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Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?
View all my comments on GitHub Issues
Visit: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+commenter%3A%40me+sort%3Aupdated-desc
Explained
https://github.com/issues lists all issues on Gitub
Filter by is:...
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How to switch to GitHub mobile website?
I know this is a 5 year old post, but it is still the first Google hit for "GitHub Switch to Mobile Version" and several other variants. The solution to add "?mobile=1" still works at least in some ...
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Force GitHub syntax highlighting language on source files
You can now force the language of any file in your repositories using Linguist overrides.
GitHub Linguist is the open-source library used to detect the language of files across Github.
To force your ....
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How can I see my contributions on GitHub to everywhere except my own repo's?
At the moment, there is no way to do this on github.com. The closest feature may be searching for pull requests and issues:
If you go in the Pull request tab and search for author:@me -user:@me, you ...
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Can I export a commit as a patch file from GitHub's web UI?
Add .patch (or .diff) at the end of the commit URL:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1ffaddd029c867d134a1dde39f540dcc8c52e274.patch
See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21903890
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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown
Use ~ to enclose whatever you want to strike.
Here's a GIF.
Just use ~ character at the start and the end in markdown.
~strike~
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Where is the complete list of GitHub achievements?
TL;DR: https://github.com/Schweinepriester/github-profile-achievements#achievements
While the answer by Smitop is currently correct, there is official documentation including specifics on how the ...
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How do I make a "Star this project on GitHub" link?
It looks like GitHub does provide this functionality - See https://buttons.github.io/
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Sending GitHub notifications from different organizations to different addresses
This is possible with help of Custom routing. First you'll have to add the relevant email address to your account.
To do this:
Head over to Settings → Emails and add & verify your email ...
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Analytics on GitHub pages
This answer is for Github Repositories, not Github Pages.
GitHub has provided native "GitHub Traffic Analytics" since 2014.
Besides tracking visitors to your repository, it provides a '...
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How can I delete accidentally uploaded attachment files to GitHub? (about comment attachments, not repository files)
If you're the uploader of the image, which has an URL in this format https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/123456/123456789-abcdefgh-1234-abcd-1234-1234abcd5678.png, you can now make use of the ...
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?
The answer by @MuhammadUsman works, but is more complicated than necessary, now that Github pages has a dedicated "Pages" panel in the settings for each repository.
Steps:
Open your repo's ...
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Can I add an image as a logo of a GitHub repository?
Now it's possible under the repository settings.
https://github.blog/2019-04-17-custom-open-graph-images-for-repositories/
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