GitHub Docs

Welcome to GitHub Docs! GitHub’s documentation is open source, meaning anyone from inside or outside the company can contribute. For full contributing guidelines, visit our [contributing guide](h[...]

Quick links by contributor type

• Hubbers (GitHub employees): See CONTRIBUTING.md in the docs-content repository for GitHub-specific processes.

• Open source contributors: See CONTRIBUTING.md in the docs repository for a quick-start summary.

How we sync changes across Docs repositories

There are two GitHub Docs repositories:

• github/docs (public): Open to external contributions

• github/docs-internal (private): For GitHub employee contributions.

The two repositories sync frequently. Content changes in one are reflected in the other. Hubbers might prefer to post in docs when working with a customer, but docs has limitations on the typ[...]

Important: The docs repository accepts contributions to content files (.md files in /content and select /data sections like reusables only). Infrastructure files, workflows, and site-b[...]

New to contributing

Here are some resources to help you get started with open source contributions:

• Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub
• Set up Git
• GitHub flow
• Collaborating with pull requests

License

This project uses separate licenses for code and documentation:

• Code: MIT License — see LICENSE
• Documentation and site content: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — see LICENSE-DOCS