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Article version: Enterprise Server 2.21
Article version: Enterprise Server 2.21
Creating, cloning, and archiving repositories
You can choose from a variety of configuration options when creating or cloning a repository. You can also use repositories to archive content and data on GitHub.
- Creating a repository on GitHub
- About repositories
- About repository visibility
- Creating a new repository
- Creating a repository from a template
- About READMEs
- About code owners
- About repository languages
- Licensing a repository
- Creating a template repository
- Creating an issues-only repository
- Limits for viewing content and diffs in a repository
- Duplicating a repository
- Cloning a repository from GitHub
- Archiving a GitHub repository