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Collaborative
Coding

Contribute to projects quickly with automatic environment setup.
Make sure you see the changes you care about.
Build community around your code.
Pull requests display diffs to compare the changes you made in your topic branch against the base branch that you want to merge your changes into.
Reviews allow collaborators to comment on the changes proposed in pull requests, approve the changes, or request further changes before the pull request is merged.

Codespaces

Code, build, test, debug, and deploy with an instant cloud development environment. Spin up a Codespace in seconds and access from any device.

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Pull requests

Allow contributors to easily notify you of changes they've pushed to a repository – with access limited to the contributors you specify. Easily merge changes you accept.

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Notifications

Get updates on the GitHub activity you've subscribed to. Use the notifications inbox to customize, triage, and manage your updates.

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Code review

Review new code, see visual code changes, and confidently merge code changes with automated status checks.

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Code review assignments

Assign code reviews to make it clear which team members should submit their review for a pull request.

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Code owners

Automatically request reviews–or require approval—by selected contributors when changes are made to sections of code that they own.

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Draft pull requests

Use a pull request as a way to discuss and collaborate, without submitting to formal review or risking an unwanted merge.

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Protected branches

Enforce restrictions on how code branches are merged, including requiring reviews, or allowing only specific contributors to work on a particular branch.

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Team discussions

Post and discuss updates within your entire GitHub organization, or just your team. Notify participants with updates, and link from anywhere.

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Team reviewers

Request a team on GitHub to review your pull request. Members of the team will get a notification indicating that you've asked for their review.

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Multiple assignees

Assign up to 10 people to work on a given issue or pull request, letting you more easily track who's working on what.

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Multiple reviewers

Request review from multiple contributors. Requested reviewers will be notified that you've asked for their review.

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Multi-line comments

Clarify code reviews by referencing or commenting on multiple lines at once in a pull request diff view.

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Public repositories

Work with any GitHub member on code in a public repository you control. Make changes, open a pull request, create an issue, and more.

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Automation
and CI/CD

Automate everything: CI/CD, testing, planning, project management, issue labeling, approvals, onboarding, and more.
Standardize and scale
best practices, security, and compliance across your organization.
Get started quickly with thousands of actions from partners and the community.
Automate everything: CI/CD, testing, planning, project management, issue labeling, approvals, onboarding, and more.

Actions

Automate all your software development workflows. Write tasks and combine them to build, test, and deploy faster from GitHub.

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Packages

Host your own software packages or use them as dependencies in other projects. Both private and public hosting available.

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APIs

Create calls to get all the data and events you need within GitHub, and automatically kick off and advance your software workflows.

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GitHub Pages

Create and publish websites about yourself, your organization, or your project directly from a GitHub repository.

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GitHub Marketplace

Start with thousands of actions and applications from our community to help you build, improve, and accelerate your automated workflows.

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Webhooks

Dozens of events, and a Webhooks API, help you integrate with and automate work for your repository, organization, or application.

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Hosted runners

Move automation to the cloud with on-demand Linux, Windows, and MacOS environments for your workflow runs, hosted by GitHub.

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Self-hosted runners

More environments and fuller control with labels, groups, and policies to manage runs on your own machines. Plus, the runner application is open source.

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Secrets management

Share, update, and automatically sync secrets across multiple repositories to increase security and reduce workflow failures.

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Environments

Meet security and compliance requirements for delivery with secrets and protection rules.

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Deployments

View which version of your code is running in an environment, including when and why, plus logs for review.

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Workflow visualization

Map workflows, track their progression in real time, understand complex workflows, and communicate status with the rest of the team.

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Workflow templates

Standardize and scale best practices and processes with preconfigured workflow templates shared across your organization.

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Policies

Manage Actions usage and permissions by repository and organizations, with additional policies for fork pull requests.

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Security

Secure code as you write it. Automatically review every change to your codebase and identify vulnerabilities before they reach production.
Understand and address any vulnerabilities in your open source dependencies.
Automatically detect and deactivate secrets committed to your repos.
Automatically review every change to your codebase and identify vulnerabilities before they reach production.
Understand and address any vulnerabilities in your open source dependencies.

Private repos

Host code that you don't want to share with the world in private GitHub repos only accessible to you and people you share them with.

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2FA

Add an extra layer of security with two -actor authentication (2FA) when logging into GitHub. Require 2FA and choose from TOTP apps, security keys, and more.

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Required reviews

Ensure that pull requests have a specific number of approving reviews before collaborators can make changes to a protected branch.

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Required status checks

Ensure that all required CI tests are passing before collaborators can make changes to a protected branch.

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Code scanning

Find vulnerabilities in custom code using static analysis. Prevent new vulnerabilities from being introduced by scanning every pull request.

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Secret scanning

Find secrets hard-coded in your public and private repositories. Revoke them to keep access to the services you use secure.

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Dependency graph

See the packages your project depends on, the repositories that depend on them, and any vulnerabilities detected in their dependencies.

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Dependabot alerts

Get notified when there are new vulnerabilities affecting your repositories. GitHub detects and alerts users to vulnerable dependencies in public and private repos.

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Dependabot security and
version updates

Keep your supply chain secure and up-to-date by automatically opening pull requests that update vulnerable or out-of-date dependencies.

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GitHub Security Advisories

Privately discuss, fix, and publish information about security vulnerabilities found in your repository.

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GitHub Advisory Database

Browse or search for the vulnerabilities that GitHub knows about. The database contains all curated CVEs and security advisories on the GitHub dependency graph.

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GPG commit signing verification

Use GPG or S/MIME to sign tags and commits locally. These are marked as verified on GitHub so other people know the changes come from a trusted source.

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Security audit log

Quickly review the actions performed by members of your organization. Your audit log includes details like who performed an action and when.

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SAML

Control and secure access to organization resources like repos, issues, and pull requests with SAML. And allow users to authenticate with their existing GitHub usernames.

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LDAP

Centralize repository management. LDAP is one of the most common protocols used to integrate third-party software with large company user directories.

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IP allow list

Limit access to enterprise assets to an allowed set of source IPs. The allow list will block access for any IP addresses not included via the web, API, and Git.

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GitHub Connect

Share features and workflows between your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

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Audit log API

Keep copies of audit log data to ensure secure IP and maintain compliance for your organization.

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Client Apps

Take GitHub with you on any connected device.
Skip the visual UI with a quick, powerful text interface.
Access GitHub from your OS X or Windows desktop.
Get to inbox zero in no time—swipe to wrap up a task or save the notification to come back to it later.
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GitHub for Mobile

Take your GitHub projects, ideas, and code to go with a fully-native mobile and tablet experience. Triage, review, and merge from anywhere.

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GitHub CLI

Bring GitHub to the command line. Manage issues and pull requests from the terminal, where you're already working with Git and your code.

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GitHub Desktop

Simplify your development workflow with a GUI. Visualize, commit, and push changes without ever touching the command line.

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Project
Management

Keep feature requests, bugs, and more organized with GitHub Issues — engineered for software teams.
Coordinate initiatives big and small with project tables, boards, and tasks lists.
Track what you deliver down to the commit.
GitHub’s planning and tracking features live with your code.
GitHub Project Shipped
Track what you deliver down to the commit.

Projects

Visually track issues, pull requests, and notes as cards that you can arrange to suit your workflow.

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Labels

Organize and prioritize your work. Apply labels to issues and pull requests to signify priority, category, or any other information you find useful.

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Milestones

Track progress on groups of issues or pull requests in a repository, and map groups to overall project goals.

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Issues

Track bugs, enhancements, and other requests, prioritize work, and communicate with stakeholders as changes are proposed and merged.

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Unified Contribution Graph

See all of your contributions to GitHub Enterprise and GitHub.com in one place: your profile's contribution graph.

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Org activity graph

See visualizations of your entire organization or specific repositories, including issue and pull request activity, top languages used, and member activity data

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Org dependency insights

With dependency insights you can view vulnerabilities, licenses, and other important information for the open source projects your organization depends on.

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Repo insights

Use data about activity and contributions within your repositories, including trends, to make data-driven improvements to your development cycle.

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Wikis

Host documentation for projects in a wiki within your repository. Contributors can easily edit documentation on the web or locally.

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Team
Administration

Simplify access and permissions management across your projects and teams.
Update permissions, add new users as you grow, and give everyone the exact permissions they need.
Sync with Okta and Azure Active Directory.
Update permissions, add new users as you grow, and give everyone the exact permissions they need.
Quickly and securely manage team permissions.

Organizations

Set up groups of user accounts that own repositories. Manage access on a team-by-team, or individual user, basis.

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Invitations

Easily add GitHub members to your repositories using their GitHub username or email address, and require them to confirm access.

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Team sync

Enable team synchronization between your identity provider and your organization on GitHub, including Azure AD and Okta.

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Custom roles

Define users' level of access to your code, data and settings based on their role in your organization.

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Domain verification

Verify your organization's identity on GitHub and display that verification through a profile badge.

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Audit Log API

Quickly review the actions performed by members of your organization. Monitor access, permission changes, user changes, and other events.

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Repo creation restriction

Restrict repository creation permissions to organization owners only—or allow members to create public and private repositories.

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Notification restriction

Protect information about what your team is working on by restricting email notifications to approved email domains.

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