Get started with GitHub documentation

Brand new to GitHub? Learn the basics here.

Create a personal account to get started with GitHub.

At the heart of GitHub is an open-source version control system (VCS) called Git. Git is responsible for everything GitHub-related that happens locally on your computer.

Learn about the version control system, Git, and how it works with GitHub.

The git rebase command allows you to easily change a series of commits, modifying the history of your repository. You can reorder, edit, or squash commits together.

If you need to manage multiple projects within a single repository, you can use a subtree merge to handle all the references.

GitHub makes extra security features available to customers who purchase GitHub Code Security or GitHub Secret Protection. Some features are enabled for public repositories by default.

You can use GitHub and Git to collaborate on work.

Earn a GitHub Certification to showcase your expertise in GitHub technologies and workflows.

GitHub's collaborative approach to development depends on publishing commits from your local repository to GitHub for other people to view, fetch, and update.

You can use a saved reply to respond to an issue or pull request.

You can use tasklists to break the work for an issue or pull request into smaller tasks, then track the full set of work to completion.