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# 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](https://docs.github.com/en/contributing).

## Quick links by contributor type

* **Hubbers (GitHub employees):** See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/github/docs-content/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) in the `docs-content` repository for GitHub-specific processes.

* **Open source contributors:** See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/.github/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 types of contributions it accepts to safeguard the site and our workflows. Internal contributions should usually go to `docs-internal`.

**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-building code are not open for external modification.

## 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](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/finding-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-on-github)
* [Set up Git](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/set-up-git)
* [GitHub flow](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-github/github-flow)
* [Collaborating with pull requests](https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-pull-requests)

## License

This project is dual-licensed under:

* **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0** - for documentation and content in the assets, content, and data folders (see [LICENSE](LICENSE))
* **MIT License** - for code (see [LICENSE-CODE](LICENSE-CODE))

Repository info

Default branch: main
Latest version: v1.0.1
Created: 31/05/2019
Last activity: 07/11/2026
License: CC-BY-4.0
Open issues: 50
Watchers: 3.6k

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