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Features

Available features for NIH GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

NIH GitHub offers a variety of features – from website templates to a desktop application – that can help you work more effectively.

  • Access Permissions - The breakdown of GitHub permissions at different levels of the heiarchy, and how that impacts you and your team.
  • Teams - The best way to group users and provide access.
  • Protected Branches - Help prevent users from making irrevocable changes to code and/or infrastructure.
  • Releases - Deploy your project as a package for download with release notes.
  • Issues - Track ideas, enhancements, tasks, notes, or bugs for work.
  • Actions - Automate software development workflows. A complete CI/CD, DevOps, ✨magic✨ workhorse.
  • github.dev - A wonderful, web-based version of Visual Studio Code available anywhere GitHub.com can be used. Just have a GitHub.com repository open and press the . key on your keyboard.
  • GitHub Desktop – Desktop application that enables you to work in the GitHub CLI offline.
  • Git Config - For command line wizards.
  • Integration Authentication – Authentication types and when would they be useful.
  • GitHub Super Linter – Prevent broken code from being uploaded to the default branch.
  • GitHub Pages – Easily build and launch modern websites. You must receive approval from your IC to publish a public-facing website with NIH GitHub. Visit Policies for more information.
  • Jekyll – A static site generator with built-in support for GitHub Pages and a simplified build process. You must receive approval from your IC to publish a public-facing website with NIH GitHub. Visit Policies for more information.