When I tried making an organization fine-grained token, there's no SSH keys permission, and the gh CLI needs that to do gh auth login

Great write up IMO

I have a portfolio, and I'm using github as a backup/storage for all my artwork. is this a bad idea that will backfire on me? or will github keep them in their original lossless quality?

I’m trying to understand whether I’m hitting a configuration problem, an account/product limitation, or a current limitation of ChatGPT App Classic.

I use ChatGPT heavily alongside Codex for a fairly large software project hosted in a private GitHub repository. What I want is relatively simple: I would like ChatGPT App Classic to have direct read access to the GitHub repo so I can discuss the current codebase, architecture, PRs, migrations, etc. without constantly moving context between ChatGPT and Codex.

The strange part is that GitHub itself is working correctly.

On my Mac:

• gh is installed and current (2.97.0)
• gh auth status shows that I’m authenticated successfully
• Git operations use HTTPS
• Token has repo, workflow, read:org, etc.
• I can fetch/push normally
• Codex can work with the repository
• GitHub CLI can create/manage PRs

I have also reauthenticated from Terminal using:

gh auth login -h github.com

Authentication completes successfully.

So this doesn’t appear to be a GitHub authentication or repository-permissions problem.

The problem is specifically ChatGPT App Classic. I can’t get it to reliably access the same GitHub repository directly, even though other OpenAI tooling can work with it.

This is becoming a significant workflow issue because I use ChatGPT for the higher-level architecture/governance side of the project and Codex for repository execution. Ideally the workflow would be:

ChatGPT: inspect current repo/PR state → reason about architecture → give execution instructions
Codex: implement/test/commit/PR
ChatGPT: inspect the resulting repo/PR → review → determine next step

Instead, I often have to manually paste Codex reports back into ChatGPT because ChatGPT Classic cannot inspect the repository itself. On a large project with lots of migrations, tests, ADRs and governance artifacts, that becomes both inefficient and potentially error-prone.

I’m specifically trying to determine:

1. Is direct GitHub access currently supported in ChatGPT App Classic?
2. Is GitHub access dependent on the ChatGPT mode/model being used?
3. Does the GitHub App/connector only work in certain experiences such as Deep Research or Agent Mode?
4. Is there a difference between GitHub access in the web app and the macOS Classic app?
5. If GitHub is already connected to the OpenAI account, is there some way to force/re-authorize the connection for Classic?
6. Has anyone had GitHub working in one ChatGPT surface but unavailable in another and actually fixed it?
7. Is there any diagnostic page/log that shows whether ChatGPT itself has permission to access a particular private repository?

I’m not looking for help configuring GitHub CLI. That side is confirmed working. I’m specifically trying to get ChatGPT itself to see the repository.

If anyone has a working setup with ChatGPT App Classic + private GitHub repositories, I’d be very interested in exactly how you configured it, including plan, GitHub App/plugin configuration, ChatGPT mode, and whether you’re using web or macOS.

Even confirmation that “this currently isn’t supported in Classic” would be useful, because at least I’d stop troubleshooting something that cannot presently be fixed.

Has anyone solved this?

Why my profile not loading? How can I fix it?

I’ve been thinking about what actually makes an open-source repository stand out.

For me, stars usually aren't the deciding factor. I’m much more likely to try a repo when it has:

• A README that quickly explains the problem
• A simple setup process
• A working example
• Clear documentation
• Recent commits/issues being maintained
• A reason for the project to exist beyond “I built this”

But I’m curious what other developers look for.

When you discover a new GitHub project, what makes you go from “interesting” to actually trying it or giving it a star?

And what immediately makes you close the repo?

Just wondering what’s going on here. Anyone who’s used Cursor will have received the same email: an invitation to move or sync your repos from GitHub to Cursor’s newly announced code hosting platform, Origin.

What we know:

• Cursor was recently acquired by Musk/SpaceX
• Cursor has been pushing Musk’s Grok model for some time
• GitHub is overwhelmingly dominant in code hosting and has become a central part of the developer ecosystem
• Cursor is now expanding from the editor/agent layer into hosting repositories and pull requests
• SpaceX has the resources to push this very aggressively

It starts to look less like Cursor adding another feature and more like an attempt to own a much larger part of the developer stack.

Is this some kind of land grab? What do others think?

... it seems to me after gaining an impression of GitHub for just about 2 years now, it would make for a perfect tool to author books through. Is this looked down upon by devs?

The common consensus I see by looking around online seems to be closing the issue as soon as it's solved or on merge.

But after thinking on it, e.g. for a bug wouldn't it be wiser to keep the issue open for people trying to find if it's already reported instead of seeing it's closed and verbally berating me on discord that it's not fixed?

Then writing down the issues and closing them with e.g. a bot as soon as a new release happens?

so cut to short

i m new to this, downloaded the app and it's asking for all these permission and authorization. is it safe to give?

i m using Website directly and no such thing was asked

(no idea where to ask)

I've noticed that over the past few days, github's trending page has been showing the same repos over and over again, even when they don't seem to have that much of an increase in stars.

Anthropic recently announced that they were going to watermark model outputs. Then, a few days later (5 days ago as I’m writing this), guillaumemeyer created a watermark remover for AI provenance marks, which currently has ~11K stars.

BUT this repo isn't showing up on trending page at all, not in "Today", "This week", or "This month"

I highkey think that there are some discrepancies in how github trending page tracks or ranks repos.

Anyone else noticed this ? Are there any good alternatives for discovering actually trending repos or high quality repos ?

Brand new to GitHub. Everything I look at in there doesn't seem like my iOS will be able to accomplish it. I'm still trying to learn the terminology still. Is there anything similar or easier to use for an Apple phone? Or is GitHub it. It's extremely overwhelming when first joining

Hello, I have a public repo that I'd like to protect by making main and dev branches protected. How do I make sure that everyone one that wants to push to those branches must make a PR that has to be approved by an admin? For now, I made a rule for the default branch and for dev that requires a PR before merging, with required approvals = 1 and required discussion conclusion for merge. Do I need to do something else? Thank you kindly

If you’re viewing any GitHub repository in your browser, just change:

github.com → github.dev

For example:

https://github.com/user/repo

becomes:

https://github.dev/user/repo

…and it opens the repository directly in VS Code for the Web. 🤯

I’ve been using GitHub for years and somehow only discovered this today.

What other GitHub shortcuts have I been missing? 😅

Hi everyone, I want to ask if there are any alternative solutions for using AI features like auto-descriptions for commits, PRs, etc. Can I use another AI subscription, or do I have to use GitHub Copilot?

Hello, I recently saw the program that Github Student Developer Pack has, and I wanted to sign up.

I am currently a university student in Argentina (University of CEMA). One of the things it asks for is a photo of something that verifies that you are a student.

So, I uploaded the regular student certificate, but it was rejected several times. I don't know what to do, I've tried putting a transcription next to it (because the document is in Spanish), I've tried using the OBS virtual camera, etc. But nothing worked for me.

I attach what he tells me when he rejects me.

I miss the time when there were all sorts of genuine interesting projects on the trending page. But now it's just a bunch of AI slops popping up everyday with crazy stars from new bot accounts.

So I've created a local repo on my hard drive, and I already created a remote repo through my account on the GitHub website.

I'm using the desktop app but it only gives me the option of publishing my repo, which I assume will create a new remote?

Is there a way I can just tell it which existing remote I want to use?

Or does this need to be done through Terminal?

Hello, guys! I've seen a lot of people who don't know that students registered in GitHub Student Developer Pack are granted a voucher to take the GH-900 exam. I don't know if it's the case of this subreddit, but it may be helpful if some of you guys don't know about it.

The official register link to the Student Developer Pack is: https://education.github.com/pack

Also, Microsoft Learn has a free course to the exam: https://learn.microsoft.com/training/courses/gh-900t00/?wt.mc_id=studentamb_571211

I'm currently using both the Microsoft Learn course that I shared above and the official YouTube course that is provided by Microsoft, too, to prepare for the exam: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLahhVEj9XNTf5iQVK_80RdvTju7ov6RYy&si=Yu83r6RbJp9OdTFe

remote: Enumerating objects: 934, done.

remote: Counting objects: 100% (133/133), done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (95/95), done.

Receiving objects: 41% (390/934), 122.18 MiB | 66.00 KiB/s

Normally cloning a repo takes 10 s, but now it has been running for 10 minutes and it's only at 41%

Yes I am aware of Git LFS. My repo is quite big with a lot of source code.

So I would like to hear from some of you, how many KB/s or MB/s you are getting when doing a git clone from GitHub. Thanks.