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Working together can take a lot of work. GitHub notifications make it easier
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GITHUB NOTIFICATIONS
If you're using GitHub well, you're constantly commenting
on pull requests and issues. That can be a lot of activity to manage.
Click on the glowing blue dot in the upper left corner
of any github.com page to see all your notifications.
Each notification tells you the kind of event that created it,
whether it was a comment on a pull request or an issue,
a pull request being merged, or an issue being closed.
They're grouped by repository to help you keep things straight.
Clicking on the title of a notification
opens its page. It also automatically marks the notification as "read".
If you go back to the list, it won't show up again.
If you're sure you don't want to revisit an issue or a pull request,
you can mark the notification as "read" by clicking on the check mark.
If you know you don't ever want to hear from it again,
you can keep it from showing up by clicking on the mute button.
You could also mute a thread by clicking on the mute button at the bottom
of the thread's page. You'll be unmuted if someone @mentions you in the future.
Remember how notifications are grouped by repository?
Well, you can mark all of a repos notifications as "read"
by clicking on the check mark here.
You can also filter your view of notifications by clicking
on any of the links over on the left.
You can view all "read," just things you are participating in,
or filter by a particular repository.
You'll get notifications for activity in a repo if you're watching it.
You can control this with the button at the top of a repository's page.
If you watch, you'll get notifications for everything that happens
in that repository,
whether you're involved directly in that discussion or not.
If you're not watching a repository, you'll only get notifications
if someone @mentions you, or if you decide to jump in to a discussion.
If you ignore it, you won't get notifications regardless.
You can do this if you're sure you don't ever want to hear
from a repo again. By going back to the repository view and clicking
on the "Watch Repositories" tab, you can get a list of all of the repos
that you're watching. You can also unwatch repos from here.
You can also decide on whether you want to watch repositories automatically.
If you check this box here, you'll automatically watch repositories
to which you have "push access." That means if someone makes you
a collaborator on a repository, you'll watch it automatically.
If you belong to an organization, and someone creates a repository
in that organization, you'll watch that repository automatically too.
If it's unchecked, you'll have to opt in to new repositories intentionally.
You can also decide whether notification events
show up on the notification page, whether they generate emails, or both.
To change this, go to your account settings,
then click on the "Notifications Center" link.
For any repositories you're watching, you can decide whether events
generate emails, or just show up on the notification page.
Likewise, when you comment on an issue, or a pull request, you could decide
whether those notifications just go to the web, or your inbox, or both.
If you select email, you can configure GitHub with a default address
to send messages.
You'll probably want to use one email for most repositories,
then override that for notifications that come from other organizations.
If you use github.com for work, but also contribute
to some open source projects, this can be a really handy way to divide email
between work and personal accounts.
You've got a lot of control over how you're notified
when conversations happen on GitHub. This is just one more way
we make it better to work together than alone.
THANKS FOR WATCHING
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