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Using templates

Using templates - GitHub Tutorial

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Using templates

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- [Instructor] If you worked within a team before, you might have encountered situations where help or input was requested but the needed information to move forward was not included. Issue templates are helpful to minimize that frustration and are used to assist in providing a clear outline for contributors asking for help to ensure that everyone is on the same page. Using the template builder feature within GitHub Issues, you can specify a title and description for each template, add the template content, and either commit the template to the default branch or open a pull request in the repository. The template builder automatically adds the yml front matter markup that is required for the template to show on the new issue page. We will navigate to the main page of a repository as shown here. To set up templates, let's head to our repository settings by selecting the Settings tab. Once in our settings, we can scroll…

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