docs

This is the open-source repository that powers docs.github.com — the official documentation site for GitHub. If you have ever looked up how to use GitHub features, set up a repository, or understand pull requests, you were likely reading content that lives here.

The repo exists so that anyone, inside or outside GitHub, can contribute improvements to the documentation. You might fix a typo, clarify a confusing explanation, add a missing example, or translate content. The content files are written in Markdown, and there are clear guidelines for what outside contributors can and cannot change — content files are open for contributions, while the site-building code and infrastructure are managed internally. GitHub employees use a separate private repository that syncs automatically with this public one.

You would use this repo when you spot an error or gap in GitHub's official docs and want to fix it, or when you want to understand how large-scale open-source documentation is structured and maintained. The tech stack is TypeScript for the site infrastructure, with documentation content in Markdown.