Welcome

Welcome to the GitHub Help site. Here we have compiled many guides to help you set up and use git and GitHub.

Guides

Use the sidebar on the right side of this site to access our guides!

If you would like to submit your own guides, please fork our repo and send pull requests to tekkub

We are in the process of moving guides over from the old wiki.

Forking a project: How to fork a project, submit changes, and pull from other repos in the fork network
Generating SSH keys: How to generate SSH keys and add them to GitHub
Troubleshooting SSH issues: Solutions to common SSH issues
Setting user name, email and GitHub token: Configure your local git installation so that commits are linked to your GitHub account

There are a number of resources available to help you learn git or fix issues with GitHub:

GitHub Support — Resolve issues with GitHub or get help with basic git issues.
Contact GitHub — Don’t feel like making an account on support.github.com? This is your direct line to us.
GitHub Google Group — Ask the community for help
GitHub Status — Is GitHub down, or is it just me?

Installing git (OSX): How to install git on OSX
Generating SSH keys: How to generate SSH keys and add them to GitHub
Troubleshooting SSH issues: Solutions to common SSH issues
Setting user name, email and GitHub token: Configure your local git installation so that commits are linked to your GitHub account
Installing Git HTML help: How to install the local git HTML help files
Working with SSH key passphrases: SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
Dealing with line endings: How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Managing multiple clients: How to manage multiple clients and their repositories

Troubleshooting SSH issues: Solutions to common SSH issues
Fixing egit corruption: How to fix corruption in a remote repo caused by egit
Testing webhooks: How to test post-receive webhook calls from your repo

Deleting a repo: How to remove a repo from your GitHub account
Moving a repo: How to move a repo from one account to another
Removing sensitive data: Dealing with accidentally committed passwords or other sensitive information
Splitting a subpath out into a new repo: How to generate a new repo from a subpath, retaining history.
Working with subtree merge: How to use subtree merge to merge one repo into another as a subpath.

Working with remotes: Pushing, fetching, merging and deleting remote branches
Ignoring files: How to tell git to ignore files
All your rebase: Using git rebase to restructure a branch

Forking a project: How to fork a project, submit changes, and pull from other repos in the fork network
Post-Receive Hooks: Working with GitHub's post-receive web hooks.
Testing webhooks: How to test post-receive webhook calls from your repo
Managing multiple clients: How to manage multiple clients and their repositories

Understanding deploy keys: Do you need a deploy key?
Deploying with Capistrano: How to set up capistrano to pull from a GitHub repo

Installing git (OSX): How to install git on OSX
Generating SSH keys (OSX): Setting up SSH keys on Mac OSX
Working with SSH key passphrases: SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
Dealing with line endings: How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Textmate: How to use Textmate as your git editor

Generating SSH keys (Win/msysgit): Setting up SSH keys with msysgit on Windows
Working with SSH key passphrases: SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
Dealing with line endings: How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo

Generating SSH keys (Linux): Setting up SSH keys on Linux
Dealing with line endings: How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo

Userscripts and Bookmarklets: Various bits of code to enhance and personalize GitHub
GitHub API
Multiple SSH keys: How to push using different SSH keys on the same computer