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GitHub (/'ɡɪtˌhʌb/) is a web-based hosting service that supports projects using Git. It is written in Ruby on Rails. GitHub offers both commercial services and free services for open source. According to a 2009 survey of Git users, GitHub is the most popular Git hosting site. A 2011 survey also named it the most popular open source code repository.

GitHub runs a pastebin-like service and a wiki for each repository, which can be edited through a Git repository.

Since January 2010, GitHub has been operated under the name GitHub, Inc.

Categories

ETC

  • GitDiagram - Visualizes a GitHub repo as an interactive diagram (useful for analyzing projects)
  • github-backup - A tool for backing up an entire GitHub user/organization
  • Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge - AI that turns a GitHub codebase into an easy tutorial
  • gail - AI-powered automatic GitHub issue labeling tool
  • RepoBar - Shows GitHub repository status at a glance in the menu bar and terminal

Github ecosystem

Related services that integrate directly with GitHub (Github) are listed below.

  • Travis CI (continuous integration)
  • Code Climate (code quality management)
  • Gemnasium (dependency version management)
  • Coveralls (test coverage)
  • Jekyll (build a personal site using GitHub Pages)
  • ActionsFlow - An IFTTT/Zapier clone based on GitHub Actions
  • osmos::feed - A web RSS reader using GitHub - Aggregates multiple feeds and hosts them statically with GitHub Pages - Periodically rebuilds feeds with GitHub Actions
  • Utterances - Adds comments to a blog using GitHub issues.
  • Shields.io - Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
  • Version Badge - https://badge.fury.io/
  • giscus - Open-source comment system using GitHub Discussions.
  • GitHub Readme Stats - Embed dynamically auto-generated stats
  • Beautify GitHub Profile - A collection of tools and repos for prettifying your GitHub profile
  • Pages CMS - An open-source CMS for GitHub
  • Repology - Repology monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources, comparing package versions and gathering other information.

Securing a GitHub project

  • Securing Your GitHub Project
  • Git Credential Manager (GCM) Core is a must
  • Set up 2FA
  • Enforce signed commits
  • Protect release branches (rule-based protected branches)
  • Require PR reviews and approvals
  • Use a secret scanning tool to prevent leaks of sensitive information
  • Erase (rewrite) Git history to remove leaked records
  • Run only trusted GitHub Actions
  • Protect secrets with GitHub Actions
  • Vulnerability scanning of dependencies
  • Automatic security updates for vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot
  • Scan code for security vulnerabilities with GitHub CodeQL
  • Write a security policy and apply it to the repo
  • Fix security vulnerabilities in a temporary private fork
  • Publish maintainer advisories about security updates for users

GitHub metrics image generator

Generate your metrics that you can embed everywhere.

  • Reads GitHub account information and generates various statistics images that can be embedded in many places, such as your GitHub profile
  • Can be used as a GitHub Action, via a shared instance, or installed yourself

Plugins

  • GitHub account statistics
  • Google PageSpeed
  • Commit calendar (Isometric)
  • Favorite music/recent music
  • Most used languages
  • Follow-up : issues (Closed/Open), PRs (Merged/Open)
  • Lines of Code / Repository Traffic
  • Tweet
  • Recent posts
  • Coding Habit : hourly/weekly graph of when you usually commit
  • GitHub Activity

OAuth

After logging in, go to the following page 

    Settings > Developer settings > OAuth Apps > New OAuth Apps

Use the following two values in the app you want to connect:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret

The two confusing fields are as follows:

  • Homepage URL - The address used when you just want to go to the plain homepage
  • Authorization callback URL - The app's authentication callback URL

Supabase integration

Troubleshooting

Password authentication is temporarily disabled as part of a brownout. Please use a personal access token instead 

remote: Password authentication is temporarily disabled as part of a brownout. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-07-30-token-authentication-requirements-for-api-and-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/group/project/': The requested URL returned error: 403

Go to Github 로그인 > Settings > Developer > Personal access token, click Generate new token to create a token, and log in with that token instead of your password.

For reference, for ordinary git source control (clone, push, etc.), you only need to add the repo item under Select scopes.

refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow .github/workflows/python-deploy.yml without workflow scope 

 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/python-deploy.yml` without `workflow` scope)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/yourname/project.git'

Go to Github 로그인 > Settings > Developer > Personal access token and add the workflow item.

See also

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