To collaborate with users in a repository that belongs to your personal account on GitHub, you can invite the users as collaborators. If you want to grant more granular access to the …

To help your project contributors do good work, you can add a file with contribution guidelines to your project repository's root, docs, or .github folder. When someone opens a pull request or …

To do so, head on over to the repository on GitHub where your project lives. For this example, it would be at https://github.com/<your_username>/Spoon-Knife. You'll see a banner indicating …

You can view the top 100 contributors to a repository in the contributors graph. Merge commits and empty commits aren't counted as contributions for this graph. You can also see a list of …

Adding outside collaborators to a repository. You can give outside collaborators access to a repository in your repository settings. For more information, see Managing teams and people …

To the right of "Manage access", click Add people or Add teams. In the search field, start typing the name of the team or person to invite, then click a name in the list of matches. Under …

Your profile shows a graph of your repository contributions over the past year. You can choose to show anonymized activity from private and internal repositories in addition to the activity from …

When you enable the activity overview section on your profile, viewers can see more information about the types of contributions you make and repositories you're most active in. A viewer can …

You can send contribution counts from GitHub Enterprise Server to your profile on GitHub.com or GHE.com.

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