Repositories documentation
About repositories
Best practices
Quickstart for repositories
Repository limits
Creating a new repository
Create from a template
Create a template repo
Issues-only repository
Duplicating a repository
Cloning a repository
Troubleshooting cloning errors
Renaming a repository
Transferring a repository
Deleting a repository
Restore deleted repository
About READMEs
Licensing a repository
Display a sponsor button
Social media preview
Classify with topics
About code owners
Repository languages
About CITATION files
Disabling issues
Disable projects
Manage GitHub Actions settings
Discussions
Security & analysis
Repository visibility
Teams & people
Manage the forking policy
Manage pull request reviews
Manage the commit signoff policy
Manage the push policy
Managing Git LFS objects in archives
Email notifications for pushes
Configure autolinks
View branches
Renaming a branch
Change the default branch
Delete & restore branches
About merge methods
Configure commit merging
Configure commit squashing
Configure commit rebasing
Managing merge queue
Manage branch updates
Manage auto merge
Automatic branch deletion
About protected branches
Branch protection rule
About rulesets
Create a ruleset
Manage a ruleset
Available rules
Troubleshooting
Creating new files
Add a file
Move a file
Edit files
Renaming a file
Delete files
How changed files appear
Navigating code on GitHub
View files and track file changes
Permanent links to files
Source code archives
Working with non-code files
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
About releases
Manage releases
View releases & tags
Searching releases
Linking to releases
Comparing releases
Automated release notes
Automate release forms
View deployment activity
About repository graphs
Using Pulse
View repository traffic
View project contributors
Analyze changes
Connections between repositories
Using the activity view
Archiving repositories
Archive content & data
Reference & cite content
Backing up a repository