I have 2 emails associated with my Github account, one primary email, and one secondary. When I remove my secondary email from account, almost half of my commits are gone. How can I persist my comm...

I really like how the Github /branches page lists the branches and a column that indicates the number of commits ahead or behind master for a branch. Is there a way to see this information in the c...

I have a Codespace with a bunch of development tools installed. I'd like to use this Codespace as a template so that I can start new projects from there. I can create a Dockerfile that installs the...

I have signed up my organization to a GitHub Teams free plan, and we are considering pushing our code to private repositories on GitHub. Our projects consist of decades old legacy code and there ar...

I'm trying to download a private repository release using the browser_download_url that I got from the github API, but the URL is giving me 404 Not Found, I set up the Authentication : token <my...

I was running docker login command in powershell. I've tried with both PAT and password, but it does not work. Error response from daemon: Get "https://ghcr.io/v2/": received unexpected H...

I have a github action that is triggered when a release is created. The goal is to: Find the tag on which the release was based Find the previous tag on that branch So far, I have this: CURRENT_T...

I have a number of services in a single GitHub repository, each service has its own CodePipeline on AWS managed through Terraform. Instead of triggering all of the pipelines on commit, I'd like to ...

In VS code, I am signed in with a github account in which I have no longer my access. So I need to completely unlink the github account from vs code. How can I do that? I am using ubuntu.

I am getting following error : create_nuget The file '/home/runner/work/MyNugetPackage/MyNugetPackage/MyNugetPackage/bin/Release/net6.0/MyNugetPackage.dll' to be packed was not found on disk. This...

I forgot to push my changes to a project I have been working on incrementally for months. This has resulted in an extremely large .git directory (~11 GB). The rest of the files in the repo combine ...

When I try: docker push ghcr.io/username/imagename:latest as per GitHub docs, I see unauthorised: unauthenticated: User cannot be authenticated with the token provided. How do I push the image t...

I am looking at a GitHub release that contains over 200 .tgz files that I want to download. Is there any way to download them all in bulk within one line/script, as opposed to downloading them each...

I'm trying to clone a repository from my organization's GitHub using GitBash, but when I do a git clone, it hangs indefinitely. The output is as follows: git clone https://github.com/myorganization...

I did fork a bower package on github since I need some enhancement and mantainers do not react to pull requests. I changed a bit bower.json (to change the name, the version and to add myself among ...

I'm working on a project that uses tabs incorrectly, and therefore doesn't like that the GitHub desktop app shows them as being 4 spaces wide in the diff. This is not nice as it's hard to read the...

I am using GitHub Desktop v2.5.7 and Git v2.29.1 on Windows 10 64 bit. My GitHub account has 2FA enabled. I can clone repositories from GitHub using the GitHub Desktop or command line I have gener...

I was trying to push some local unversioned code into a repo and get it up onto GitHub for accessibility reasons. I followed the suggestions here cd <local_dir> git init git add . git commit ...

I have an assignment that was already accepted by some of the students and I need to update it. I updated the assignment template. How can students now merge the updates into their repositories? (I...

We have a few branch policies to protect one of the branches in the github repo. One policy is that the deployment to the specified environment must be successful. But even after the deployment is ...

I am working on a project with a GitHub repo. I've been able to "add *", "commit" and "push" everything without a problem in the last 3 months. Now I downloaded a data...

I am curious about cloning projects using git. In order to clone a project we are calling: git clone [email protected]:MY_GIT_USERNAME/PROJECT.git So what we are doing here, is we are acce...

Does anyone know of an open-source project or program for running tests against code examples in README.md? A perennial problem, my documentation tends to drift out of date with the code. For exam...

I'm trying to use Fine Grained Personal Access Tokens (PAT) as this seems to the recommended approach but running into difficulties. Steps I have followed are: Configured organizational access to ...

I'm trying to fork this repository, but getting an error message: You can't fork this repository at this time. I've read the license, and tried forking from another computer using VPN, in case o...