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
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Hubbers (GitHub employees): See CONTRIBUTING.md in the
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Open source contributors: See CONTRIBUTING.md in the
docsrepository for a quick-start summary.
There are two GitHub Docs repositories:
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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.
Here are some resources to help you get started with open source contributions: