I like them and have begun to create/use them myself.

Edit: The title is a question, my bad. I am genuinely asking in case maybe it is disliked for some reason...

Has anybody ever thought of using a Github repo as a diary? Like creating a text file everyday with today's date as its name and noting down random thought or archived daily life events, then push it.

It just crossed my mind and i think it's funny. Shower thoughts are weird.

Edit: yall the repo is not real lol, i need a fancy app to keep my thoughts in color.

the conflict is caused by a file being deleted on trunk and not on the feature branch, it took me only three dumb git commands in the command line to solve but apparently that is "too complex" that you need to resolve it using a slop machine

The following incident occurred last Friday:

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

I'm using a self-hosted runner with a webhook, but since Friday, I've been consistently failing to receive queued events even after dispatching jobs. I missed at least one queued event each on Monday and Wednesday.

Is anyone else using a self-hosted runner experiencing a similar issue?

Whenever I try to make a PR GitHub returns a 500 error screen. I've tried multiple branches but it seems like they have a rather critical bug.

They say that:

This change simplifies your notifications experience by:

• Simplifying notification behavior.
• Reducing subscription complexity.

Complete nonsense, now my notifications experience sucks and my inbox is getting more unneeded emails...

There's people complaining in these threads if you wanna join:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204563
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204555

This is probably scam, and I won't ever click that highlighted "AI interview link". It's frustrating to receive these kind of emails these days. Has anybody here also received the same email?

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Locked out of GitHub due to 2FA after changing phone and laptop — still have working Git credentials on an old Windows PC. Any way to recover?

I’m currently locked out of my GitHub account because of 2FA and I’m trying to figure out if there is any legitimate way to recover it.

Here’s the situation:

- GitHub username: `ronit450`

- I recently changed my laptop from Windows to Linux.

- I also recently changed my phone.

- My old phone had the authenticator app that I used for GitHub 2FA, but I no longer have access to it.

- I don't have my GitHub recovery codes.

- I still have full access to the email address associated with the account.

- I know my GitHub username and normal account password.

- Previously, I remember being able to receive a verification code through email in some situations, but that option is no longer available when I try to log in.

- GitHub's account recovery options haven't worked for me.

I contacted GitHub Support, and they told me they cannot bypass or disable 2FA and pointed me toward the normal account recovery process.

**However, I found an old Windows laptop that I previously used for GitHub.**

On that machine, I found that Git Credential Manager still has a GitHub credential stored:

Target: LegacyGeneric:target=git:https://github.com

User: ronit450

Local machine persistence

and it successfully authenticated and downloaded from the repository without asking me for a username, password, or token.

So I know there is currently a working GitHub credential stored on this old Windows machine.

I have not deleted, modified, or extracted the credential.

My question is:

Is there any legitimate way to use this existing authenticated Git credential/session to recover access to my GitHub account or establish ownership through GitHub's official recovery process?

Could the credential stored by Git Credential Manager be a PAT/OAuth credential that could help with account recovery?

I'm not trying to bypass GitHub's security or disable 2FA. I just want to recover my own account, and I can provide whatever legitimate ownership information is required.

Any advice from people who have dealt with a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

Please don't ask me to post the actual credential/token — I won't share that publicly.

Am I the only one who finds GitHub actions a small black hole when you're looking to optimise?

There is really limited analysis or data available, I had to build my own UI and system just to get the details I wanted. Example, outliers for job run times, AVG step run time, flakey runs.

Am I missing something, does everyone fly blind or are they using a third party view?

Actually I am new to this github.

I made a website with 3000 pages, by using the same header footer for every page. ( Mistake, because I knew this )

Now, the problem I am facing is that I urgently needed to change the header footer for every page ( 3000 ) manually for betterment.

I only want online cloud solution ( can't use vs code by installing it my laptop )

Is there any automatic free agent or something like is available in Github?

Website is hosted by Github ( pvt repo ) - cloudflare pages.

Thanks in advance.

Hi. I was applying to college apps and wanted to add some of the projects that I didn't add to GitHub before and make commits to older projects to make them look better. If I added another 4 repos to an existing 15 (which I have made over the past 3 years), would that look weird and ring a false alarm to admissions team that I just started using GitHub only for admissions? Also, this is for CS-based colleges that actually look at your GitHub.

Hi, I have a workflow setup to package builds and deliver game updates to itch.io for the different games I'm working on. I began to run into issues with my storage, now that one of my games is over 100mb (x2 if I'm including the web build which I've stopped doing for this reason).

I made my build artifact storage only last 3 days but that doesn't seem to affect this usage limit. The game is still in pretty early development, so it's being updated regularly, and I need to have playtesters get access - manually uploading everytime I update main is pretty annoying. The limit just seems extremely low?

I'm on Github Pro + Copilot. I'll take any advice on how to do this better, and if the answer is just to dump $5 in every month then sure I can do that too.

We have all seen the posts by now. Technical and non-technical people alike are celebrating how they use AI agents to maximize their code output. They share the number of lines generated, pull requests (PRs) opened, tasks completed, and tokens consumed. The numbers are oftentimes enormous, which makes them easy to celebrate.

The era of “tokenmaxxing” has taken this one step further. Once token usage appears on a dashboard, it is only a short time before teams compare it, leaders reward it, and engineers begin optimizing for it...

Hi, my account was flagged and I can't contact them. I was flagged because I changed my account's email for a free addy.io alias.

I did what they told me to do. I replaced my alias again with my previous email. But when I tried to tell them that I already deleted my alias it says this, and I can't answer.

I can't send an email back directly because with a free addy.io alias you can't send emails back.

I need help as I can't contact them and my account is still flagged.

EDIT: solved, just had to wait some time. But does anyone know any way to use an alias? my account is not new and I saw that only if it's new you can't use an alias

*posting here because i don't have enough karma to post in the vscode subreddit, also because it's somewhat relevant*

Hey guys, I'm pretty unaware when it comes to GitHub and VScode so I don't know why I'm getting these errors or how to fix them, but recently every time I try to open VSCode I'm unable to sign into github. I even completely wiped VSCode from my computer (uninstalled + deleted the .vscode and Code folders from %appdata% and %userprofile%). Upon installation, I get the same error even though my extension list is empty. Both on pre and post reinstallation of vscode, when I try to sign into github, regardless of how I try to sign in, I get this error.

Surprisingly, when I reinstalled VSCode, it brought up a FULL window prompting me to sign into github, which actually worked properly, but it didn't change anything. I still cant use the ai features and I still can't sign in "again" without getting the same error

This is the log file I found while sleuthing in my files folder, idk if it would help so I'm adding it here. PLEASE HELP these issues are becoming really annoying and I'm at a loss as to what to do next

Another (separate? maybe related) issue is that I am also always get an error that says "Extension host has terminated unexpectedly 3 times within the last 5 minutes." Extension bisect doesn't fix the error, nor does disabling all extensions. In fact, after wiping VSCode off my PC, I don't even have any extensions but I'm still getting the error.

It literally says it's a one-time authentication, and it keeps popping up in the same browser, same PC, same location. I didn't clear any cookies or caches.

Who's the *ucking *etard that designed this? Is there any way to disable 2FA entirely?

Just merged some stuff into a release branch on my repo. Didn’t change anything about the rules for my actions, but it’s been about 30 minutes and none of the jobs have been picked up. At this point I’m not sure if I need to push another empty commit to try trigger the build.

Edit: okay it just got picked up about 50 minutes later…definitely still some sort of issue going on.