You can create tags for GitHub by either using: the Git command line, or GitHub’s web interface. Creating tags from the command line To create a tag on your current branch, run this: git tag <tagname> If you want to include a description with your tag, add -a to create an annotated tag: git tag … Read more
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you: Download Directory (Credits to fregante) It has also been integrated into the excellent Refined Github chrome extension as a button in the Github web UI. GitZip (Credits to Kino – see his answer here) DownGit (Credits to … Read more
A common cause is cloning using the default (HTTPS) instead of SSH. You can correct this by going to your repository, clicking “Clone or download”, then clicking the “Use SSH” button above the URL field and updating the URL of your origin remote like this: git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git You can check if you … Read more
Note: please see an alternative to git rebase -i in the comments below— git reset –soft HEAD^ First, remove the commit on your local repository. You can do this using git rebase -i. For example, if it’s your last commit, you can do git rebase -i HEAD~2 and delete the second line within the editor … Read more
Since Git 1.7.9 (released 2012), there is a neat mechanism in Git to avoid having to type your password all the time for HTTP / HTTPS, called credential helpers. You can just use one of the following credential helpers: git config –global credential.helper cache The credential.helper cache value tells Git to keep your password cached … Read more
Try this markdown:  I think you can link directly to the raw version of an image if it’s stored in your repository. i.e. 