*(from April, 2009)*

The ability to break forks or reverse the direction of forks.

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*(from July, 2009)*

The ability to add contributors to a repo before you've pushed anything (you can do it if you know the admin URL but there's no link).

**EDIT**: this has now been resolved.

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*(from September, 2009)*

GitHub should calculate [Leidel numbers](https://thoughtstreams.io/jtauber/leidel-number/) and show them on user profile pages.

(this was mostly a joke)

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*(from August, 2010)*

*(via brosner)*  GitHub should make use of `git push -u` in pushing instructions for a new repo.

**EDIT**: this has now been resolved.

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*(from May, 2011)*

Support for folders for my repos rather than a flat list under my username.

*(reiterated July, 2012)*

Ability to organize my repos into folders

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*(from January, 2012)*

The ability to annotate branches.

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*(from February, 2012)*

The ability to fork a repo more than once (to different orgs or personal+org)

**EDIT**: this has now been resolved.

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*(from February, 2012)*

*(via lukeman)* A replacement for the traditional project mailing list.

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*(from June, 2012)*

Let you trivially attach [gaug.es](http://gaug.es/) to your user, org and repo pages (I mean on their site, not github pages)

**EDIT**: I guess this has been resolved, at least for repos with [Traffic Analytics](https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics) although that doesn't seem to cover the user / org level.

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*(from June, 2012)*

Web hooks per user / org

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*(from July, 2012)*

Distinction between "bookmarking" an interesting project and "subscribing" to updates in my feed about it

**EDIT**: this has now been resolved with watching vs stars

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*(from July, 2012)*

 Auto dismiss notifications that have already been actioned (e.g. if PR already merged, don't show it any more)

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*(from February, 2013)*

If you change which fork is the official one on GitHub,  migrate over stargazers and watchers.


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*(from March, 2013)*

Ability to assign tickets to non-collaborators. Otherwise, the "fork to contribute" model does not work well with issues.

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*(from May, 2013)*

contributor agreement signing

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*(from July, 2013)*

A DON'T MERGE flag on pull requests for works-in-progress.

**EDIT**: I wonder if this is now possible with labels.

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*(from July, 2013)*

Take an issue and automatically convert it into a branch and WIP pull-request.


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*(from August, 2013)*

*(via Gary Dusbabek)* a "sync this fork to upstream" button.


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Microdonation Support, like Gittip / Flattr / Bountysource

[Gittip ](http://gittip.com/) | 
[Flattr ](https://flattr.com/) | 
[Bountysource](https://www.bountysource.com/)

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*(from October, 2013)*

*(via Adam Baldwin)* private issues and pull requests for open source projects to improve responsible disclosure of security issues 

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column numbers (or even better, a ruler) in the text editor to help keeps lines within a limit.