github/docs
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #1 among Documentation repositories ranked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #147 of 182 repositories with measured growth this week (top 81%).
This week's +136 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +81 per week.
The project lists 426 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #37 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Hosts the source code and Markdown files for the official GitHub documentation website.
- Enables collaborative, open-source contributions to GitHub's documentation with streamlined workflows and Codespaces integration.
- Use for contributing fixes or updates to GitHub product documentation via pull requests or Codespaces.
- Use for setting up a local or cloud-based environment to develop and preview GitHub Docs content.
- Use for exploring structured documentation content and reusable data components to understand GitHub's API and product features.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
CC BY 4.0
Permissive content license, unusual for code: reuse is allowed with attribution, but it was not written for software.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
This repository contains the documentation website code and Markdown source files for docs.github.com.
GitHub's Docs team works on pre-production content in a private repo that regularly syncs with this public repo.
Use the table of contents icon on the top right corner of this document to navigate to a specific section quickly.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+679 stars over 89 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +3 on Sep 5.
Forks
69.4K+1.2K
Open issues
49-146
Compared with peers in Documentation
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tencent/WeKnora | 36.5K | +721 | 55 | 6 days ago |
| github/docs | 21.3K | +136 | 45 | — |
| getzola/zola | 17.6K | — | 57 | 47 days ago |
| scalar/scalar | 16.3K | — | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Tencent/cherry-markdown | 4.9K | — | 60 | 6 days ago |
| sopaco/deepwiki-rs | 3.1K | — | 30 | 43 days ago |
| Category median | 16.3K | — | 57 | — |
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