This repository contains the documentation website code and Markdown source files for docs.github.com.

GitHub's Docs team works on pre-production content in a private repo that regularly syncs with this public repo.

In this article:

• Contributing
• READMEs
• License
• Contributors ✨

We accept a lot of different contributions, including some that don't require you to write a single line of code.

As you're using the GitHub Docs, you may find something in an article that you'd like to add to, update, or change. Click on make a contribution to navigate directly to that article in the codebase, so that you can begin making your contribution.

If you've found a problem, you can open an issue using a template.

If you have a solution to one of the open issues, you will need to fork the repository and submit a PR using the template that is visible automatically in the pull request body. For more details about this process, please check out Getting Started with Contributing.

We use GitHub Discussions to talk about all sorts of topics related to documentation and this site. For example: if you'd like help troubleshooting a PR, have a great new idea, or want to share something amazing you've learned in our docs, join us in discussions.

That's how you can get started easily as a member of the GitHub Documentation community. ✨

If you want to know more, or you're making a more complex contribution, check out Getting Started with Contributing.

There are a few more things to know when you're getting started with this repo:

1. If you're having trouble with your GitHub account, contact Support.
2. We do not accept pull requests for translated content - see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

In addition to the README you're reading right now, this repo includes other READMEs that describe the purpose of each subdirectory in more detail:

• content/README.md
• contributing/README.md
• data/README.md
• data/reusables/README.md
• data/variables/README.md
• includes/liquid-tags/README.md
• includes/README.md
• javascripts/README.md
• layouts/README.md
• lib/liquid-tags/README.md
• middleware/README.md
• script/README.md
• stylesheets/README.md
• tests/README.md

The GitHub product documentation in the assets, content, and data folders are licensed under a CC-BY license.

All other code in this repository is licensed under a MIT license.

When using the GitHub logos, be sure to follow the GitHub logo guidelines.

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This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!