GitHub Feature Requests

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last posted Jan. 28, 2014, 10:55 p.m.
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(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 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 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 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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(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.