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Better code starts with a Pull Request, a living conversation about changes where you can talk through ideas, assign tasks, discuss details, and conduct reviews.
Reviews happen faster when you know exactly what’s changed. Diffs compare versions of your source code side by side, highlighting the parts that are new, edited, or deleted.
Your teammates shouldn’t have to think too hard about what a thumbs up emoji means. Specify whether your comments are required changes or just a few suggestions.
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Discussions happen in comment threads, right within your code. Bundle comments into one review, or reply to someone else’s inline to start a conversation.
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See everything happening in your project and choose where to focus your team’s efforts with Projects, task boards that live right where they belong: close to your code.
Reference every Issue and Pull Request in a card, a drag-and-droppable snapshot of the work your teams do in your repository.
Capture early ideas that come up as part of your standup or team sync, without polluting your issues.
Issues help you identify, assign, and keep track of tasks within your team. You can open an Issue to track a bug, discuss an idea with an @mention, or start distributing work.
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Assign an Issue or a Pull Request to one or more teammates to make it clear who is doing what work.
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A well-timed app can complement your workflow and help your team accomplish more. Hundreds of tools work with GitHub to help your team communicate, automate work, and have a better day.
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Moderation tools, like issue and pull request locking, help your team stay focused on code. And if you maintain an open source project, user blocking reduces noises and ensures conversations are productive.
Set roles and expectations without starting from scratch. Customize common codes of conduct to create the perfect one for your project. Then choose a pre-written license right from your repository.
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GitHub is one of the largest code hosts in the world with over 85 million* projects. Private, public, or open source, all repositories are equipped with tools to help you host, version, and release code.
Repositories help you keep code in one place, even if you use SVN or work with large files using Git LFS.
With unlimited private repositories included in all GitHub plans, you can create or import as many projects as you’d like.
Make changes to your code in precise commits so you can quickly search every commit message in your revision history to find a change.
Use the blame view to trace changes and discover how your file, and your code base, has evolved.
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