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Hosting service for software projects using the Git revision control system. For questions about using GitHub web interface such as: how to use its search, pushing your branch or repository, wiki page formatting and directories, and syntax highlighting on README files.

GitHub is a hosting service that allows software developers and open source code contributors to build projects that use the Git revision control system.

The service builds upon a social networking type of atmosphere where developers can follow each other's activities and openly contribute to one another's repositories or projects.

GitHub offers both plans for private repositories and free accounts, which are usually used to host open-source software projects.

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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown

Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown but, in particular, text is not working for me. It used to work on the now deprecated live preview page, but not on preview of README.md file. It works on wikis. I didn't find any…
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Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?

Where can I see all the comments I wrote on issues on the GitHub website? https://github.com/issues only list the issues I have opened, and not the issues I have commented on.
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GitHub - What's this "Pro" tag on my profile?

I logged into GitHub today and found something new I hadn't seen before: What is this, and why did it begin to appear?
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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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How do I find the date of the first commit in a GitHub repository?

Given a GitHub repository, 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 projects with very long commit histories.
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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? If not, why should I use them? Do other users, or…
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Any way to contact a user on GitHub?

I'd like to contact a developer on GitHub to see how I can help out, etc. I don't see the option anywhere.
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Analytics on GitHub pages

Does GitHub provide some (native) way to track visitors on some hosted page (pages at *.github.io/project)? I know we can see traffic on GitHub repositories and I thought there would be some similar features for pages but couldn't find anything.
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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 their own repository. Is there any way to associate…
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Am I allowed to host a commerical website on GitHub Pages?

Can I host my company's website on GitHub Pages, if I wanted? Are there any restrictions on what you can and can't use GitHub pages for? We don't get a lot of traffic, so I don't think bandwidth is the issue. I'm interested from a legal perspective.
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What does a star with PRO in purple mean in a GitHub user account profile?

I just saw this on a GitHub account, but I have no idea what it means. How do I get one of these?
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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 those changes. Is this possible in the Github web…
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Can I trick GitHub into displaying the PDF in the browser instead of downloading it?

When viewing a PDF file on GitHub, there seems to be no way to have the browser simply display the file as opposed to downloading it. None of these links work, and these are the only ones I'm able to get to (or derive from the behaviour of working…
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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: ![GitHub Logo](/images/logo.png) Format: ![Alt Text](url) Following their example syntax, I can't seem to be able to make it work. Even the GitHub logo example…
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How to search with boolean operators on GitHub?

GitHub has a search system, building on elastic search that has many advanced features like searching for repositories or users. Using Google, I can search GitHub for alternatives. The search syntax of GitHub however only covers the negation…
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