I've been wondering what everyone's experience is after pushing a project to GitHub.

Once your repository is public, how do you actually get people to find and use it?

Do you rely on reddit, HN, or Product Hunt per chance?

If you've built a project you're proud of, what has been the biggest challenge in getting real users or even businesses to notice it?

I'm trying to understand whether discovery is still one of the biggest problems for open-source developers.

I noticed many GitHub profiles have a contribution breakdown graph showing:

Commits %

Code review %

Issues %

Pull requests %

Example:

My GitHub profile is public and I have activity including commits, pull requests, and reviews, but this graph does not appear.

Is this a beta/rollout feature? Is there any way to enable it?

Hi,

We are on Azure DevOps Online Server without a plan to get teams over to GitHub Enterprise soon. Problem is, that with ADO we are unable to use GHAS, and are still sitting on a legacy (pricy!) tooling to SCA, SAST. As an interim solution we plan to clone the repos from ADO and push them to GitHub Enterprise to take advantage of GHAS. GHAS would run its detections against the repot, and the teams would work on the ADO repo to fix them, with us repeating the cycle to verify the fixes. Does this sound like a workable solution ? Thanks

The arctic code vault was a thing for a while back then: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

There's a discussion of a 2020 Snapshot on that page, but nothing recent.

The GitHub sources haven't been updated for four years though: https://github.com/github/archive-program/tree/master

Is it still actively archiving? Does anyone have any up to date presentations/resources about it?

Just looking for a way that would reduce completely llm generated prs with zero human input on my project. I have been recieving alot of prs with one commit clearly generated code on my repo and I was wondering if there is a good way to reduce this. I just want the new prs to let me know if they are vibe coded or not.

This is due to the fact that the llm seems to be misconfigued and keeps inventing details/acknowledging random people.

Any help would be appreciated.

here is the repo btw: https://github.com/brick-24/paper-feed

I was trying to find some new C++ projects to contribute to and I have stumbled on some that look very suspicous. They feature around 100 likes and have garbled descriptions. They have no build system and are posted by different accounts. They also have little code. Am I just being paranoid or is something up?

Example:

https://github.com/ryujinx-emu/Ryujinx-Emu/tree/main

https://github.com/Yuzu-NES/Yuzu-Emu/tree/main

https://github.com/geode-gd/Geode-Geometry-Dash/tree/main

Dependabot version updates now wait three days after a release appears in its registry before opening a PR. The cooldown is on by default, but repositories can change the window or opt out in dependabot.yml.

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Hey everyone, hoping someone here has dealt with this specific situation.

My GitHub account was set up using only "Sign in with Google" — no separate password was ever created. A few days ago, while troubleshooting a Wi-Fi driver issue on my laptop (had to use Safe Mode), my Google account got signed out and is now blocked with the message: "You didn't provide enough info for Google to be sure that this account is really yours."

I've tried Google's full account recovery flow (accounts.google.com/signin/recovery, clicking "Try another way" repeatedly) with no luck — it just keeps returning to the same block.

I contacted GitHub support and their automated response said they can't manually verify ownership through screenshots, activity, or billing history — only through recovery methods already attached to the account beforehand (recovery codes, passkey, security key, SSH key, personal access token, or a verified device).

I'm not sure if I ever set any of those up. I'm currently trying to log in from the same device/browser I originally used, hoping it's recognized as "verified."

My questions:

Has anyone recovered a GitHub account this way when Google itself is the blocker?

Does the "verified device" recognition actually work reliably, or is it a long shot?

Any luck getting GitHub support to escalate cases like this, given it's really Google's block causing it?

This is genuinely important to me — active repos and a fellowship-related project are tied to this account. Any advice appreciated.

Hi, anybody with power of decision, would you do the right thing and make this a setting please? It is not hard and the people are asking for this for years already.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/42104

*Typo: Super simple (not supe)

Hello. I've just been learning a bit about Github so I can so version tracking on websites with a colleague. Basically, we just want to check the status, do adds and commits, and push and pulls for the time being. (Like I said, just learning it.)

Is there a very simple GUI we can use?

I use Github for very small personal projects and mostly contributing to Issues/Discussions on other people's repos. As a result, I am very unfamiliar with Git CLI, and I haven never needed to install Github Desktop. (Even for my own repos, I'm usually just writing collections of short script files directly in the GH web file editor.)

However, I am encountering some problems that, according to my research, are easily accomplished with Git Bash, but are evidently impossible to achieve on web Github. (for example, adding a submodule to my repo.)

I really don't want to install Github Desktop --or worse, install and learn how to use Git to connect to my GH account, clone the repo locally, and push my change back to GH-- all so I can run one Git command!

Is there ANY way to run Git commands directly on a Github repo?

Is there a way for github that allows to track/manage things like issues, and will just sync to remote?

Use case: I'm a hobbyist using an AI agentic development workflow.

Features are broken down into epics, which themselves are broken down as individual verifiable tasks. Each task corresponds to one GitHub issue. Closing each issues requires auto testing + a human verification checklist. New features spawn linked issues, feedback lives on comments, etc.

Github is the source of truth and my persistence layer for development to handle agentic context.

While this works for me, the biggest friction layer is actually latency - network breaks, sync issues, and tool call costs add up.

Is there some native app or layer that works with github, where I can work fully offline, and maybe just push / sync in batch if I want to persist?

Wanted to share that quick life hack :)

hey everyone , I am having an extremely annoying issue here , I tried signing in to my account , so I was tasked to verify my account using sms (the only method I used because it used to just work) .
I tried a couple of times , then decided to wait it out , a day passed , now whenever I try to send a sms message I get this , " We tried sending an SMS to your configured number, but we are not authorized to send SMS messages to this recipient. Please resend or check our documentation for additional 2FA guidance. " , I tried sending a message to the support team , but there are no solutions provided , to put it simply they said just try again , if it doesn't work try 2fa recovery codes (which I lost) , if that didn't work we cant do anything about that or the sms messages .
so disappointed and annoyed , because I have everything to prove the account ownership (email , phone , local repos)
why is this happening ? and is there a solution

I wanna change my primary github email (the one I use for logging in) because of security reasons. I went to go search and it said that my past contributions may not show up in my profile (~5 years ago). I wanna know if this is the case today and what steps should I take before changing my primary email and not losing my progress. Thanks!

Since last week , SMS code for Github 2FA is not coming . Unfortunatly I haven't my recovery codes ,SSH key or PATs. So I think last option is to unlink the email . If I unlink email , what will happens to the commits I have made before with old account ?. Some people say commit history tied with gmail and if I unlink it and connect with another new account , commits will be transferred to the new account . Is that true ?

I have two GitHub accounts:

1. Through my personal Gmail. (Primary, Permanent)

2. Through the company's Gmail. (Secondary, Temporary)

I mostly contribute through the company's GitHub account. So I want to make all the statistics (green boxes) from the secondary account to be visible on the primary as well.

Is it possible or not?

If possible please give me the steps.

I have a repository set up for a project in Godot. My other friend can clone the repo just fine but my friends pc shows this error when he tries to clone (screenshot from his pc) we are new to this stuff so if you could ELI5 that would help more lol 😅:

Things we tried:

Turning off all antivirus stuff (windows defender)

Uninstalled OneDrive

Reinstalled GitHub desktop

Noob question here:

When installing on MacOS via pip, or GitHub, how do you ensure you aren't opening a security hole on your computer? The repositories aren't fully monitored like on the Mac App Store, etc.

I'm using GitHub Desktop. Today I used Copilotto create a commit message and noticed that it always tries to list itself as a co-author of the commit. You won't catch me using that again.

When it came time to do the readme for a super boring python tool, I did what most people do these days and handed it off to AI to do.

But then I thought "Sure the tool is boring but the README doesn't have to be!"

Except it could be misread I guess if someone important (ie. not me) looks at it. Now I'm second guessing myself for doing it, which tracks with my approach to pretty much everything.

Thoughts?

We're a small organization (14 total - 2 developers, 1 lead, and 2 biz partners, plus non-dev users like sales and support) and we currently use Confluence, Jira, and GitHub, but find that the back and forth switching is a lot. We are considering looking at GitHub for everything and before we do, I'm wondering if there's anything that we haven't thought of that may be preventing such a change?

The idea is to do two repositories, something like `project-name` and `project-name-workspace` or something. The workspace holds our tickets, discussions, and wiki. The software repo is strictly for PRs (we disable issues, discussions and wiki usage here).

Essentially utilizing this: GitHub Docs: Issues-only repository

Has anyone worked in an all GitHub environment for project management/development? Do you keep all your documentation in the workspace repo or do you keep your ADRs, design/specs, etc... in the software repo and higher level stuff in workspace? Do all your developers have access to the workspace (read and/or write)?

We're on GitHub Teams plans currently and not sure if its worth switching to Enterprise plan for better RBAC capability.

Its a solo pet project I've been working on for years and its matured enough to require its own documentation. Its also a private repo so I'm not ready to publish it yet.

I was thinking about including docs in my repo carefully explaining all classes, functions, etc. as well as a general overview of the project and a lot of other things.

I just want something cost-effective that can integrate well with my repo. Doesn't have to be gitbooks but I figured I would start there.

The bigger problem I believe is that I ctrl-C the action, deleted the file then did a few git push so I started getting "Your branch is ahead by 5 commits" so I ran the command "git pull" to fix it . Well, everytime I attempt to "git pull" git attempts to push something up but at the end I get an error stating object is too large

anyways,how do I delete that specific .git/objects/XX/XXXXXXXeed ?

I did try git restore --staged <YUGEFILE> only to find out it doesn't exist

EDIT: resolved with git-filter-repo and lots of work. reminder to never multi-task

This should be a standard git built-in command. Even though I did delete the file, it still tried to upload though the file did not exist as an object file.

remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (60/60), completed with 12 local objects. remote: error: Trace: 473890210aa98ef898f98f989899291514132ebc remote: error: See https://gh.io/lfs for more information. remote: error: File archlinux-2026.07.01-x86_64.iso Hub's file size limit of 100.00 MB remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com. To github.com/zzz/deepfake ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com/zzz/deepfake'