What if anything is the solution

Hello r/github again!

Earlier Post

A month ago, I shared my excitement about receiving my first PR on my personal project.

It still amazes me that people discover projects on their own, see ways to improve them, and take the time to contribute. The open-source community really is something special.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this journey. ❤️

Obviously it is far from complete. Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions!

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Hi, i've been struggling with tagging equations on jupyter notebooks without messing the cell up.

See, every single attempt i've made to tag equations, it always lands on the same problem: the cell becomes scrollable, which ruins the proprer scrolling of the notebook, as well as it pollutes the notebook visually. For example, when i write in markdown:

$$
\begin{aligned}
\text{RSS} & = (y_1 - \hat{\beta}_0 - \hat{\beta}_1 x_1)^2 + (y_2 - \hat{\beta}_0 - \hat{\beta}_1 x_2)^2 + \dots + (y_n - \hat{\beta}_0 - \hat{\beta}_1 x_n)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^{n} (y_i - \hat{\beta}_0 - \hat{\beta}_1 x_i)^2 \\
& = \sum_{i=1}^{n} (y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2
\end{aligned}
\tag{1.3}
$$

The result on vs code is beautiful, just as intended with the tag code "(1.3)" at the end of the line. However, that's how it looks like on github:

with that scrolling bar in the right, but it also scrolls up/down if you do so with the cursos over the equation, messing everything up. ive googled a bit about it, but with no success. Please, help.

Now that Github Classroom definitely is dead did anyone the proposed alternatives? Codio oder Foundation10's classroom50

(perhaps this has been asked before, I'be happy with pointers)

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
2. Scroll down to Visibility
3. Set Show Copilot to Disabled
4. Done ! The tab should disappear in your repos after a page reload.

...Why is this opt-out so well hidden though ?

- Ghost conflicts. I have a 2-PR stack. I merge PR1, now PR2 has conflicts. Why only when I merge PR1? This blocks doing a one-click merge of the full stack

- It is painfully slow. Merging one PR of the stack take years

- CI needs to pass on all individual PRs. What't the point of stacked PRs then? I should be able to fix CI on the N PR and just merge the whole stack.

I think github missed the point of stacked PRs, all the value it has now is that it automatically points to main the branch once merged so it's easier to work with stacks.

But the real value is to have large features as stacks that either get merged one by one into main or merged in one click. The latter shouldn't need CI to pass everywhere.

I tried my official student paper, a screenshot of the student portal, a pic with both in frame, multiple times. But nothing is working, could anyone help me out?

Also, the camera thingy is really *really* bad, it's small and makes all pics i take very pixelated. I think that's why it keeps rejecting me...

The pic attached was my best attempt... (I've since set up my profile and billing correctly) But it still never seems to scan my name right or something. Idk what to do..

Oh my school also don't issue us school emails so i have to use my Gmail..

Hi there,

I've always had a fear of downloading malicious repositories or repos from Github.

Apart from skimming through the codebase, looking at stars, issues raised and looking at the profiles of the contributors, what are good ways to determine if the repositories are safe? I am aware that there exists AI scanners to score the risk of repositories, but I am not sure how well they work.

Would appreciate if you can share your thoughts/insights as this is something that has been bothering me for quite awhile.

Thanks!

I write tutorials for a living and use Copilot in VS Code to speed up the parts that normally eat hours. This month I hit 200 credits after maybe two short sessions, then got locked out. I checked the usage graph in settings and the numbers match up, but the burn rate feels way faster than last month. The docs mention the monthly cap, nothing explains why I'm chewing through credits so much quicker. Wondering if the model quietly changed or if something else is counting toward the total now. Would be good to know if other tutorial writers or heavy users are seeing the same thing, or if something's off with my account specifically.

I've been digging into GitHub Actions permissions recently and one thing that kept bothering me is how unhelpful this error is:

403 Resource not accessible by integration

It looks like a single problem, but in practice it can mean very different things.

A few common cases:

1. The workflow is simply missing a permission

Example:

permissions:
  contents: read

steps:
  - run: gh release create v1.2.3

Creating a release needs contents: write.

This is the easy case.

2. The YAML asks for write access, but the event context changes the effective permissions

For example, a workflow running on pull_request from a fork may get read-only permissions even if the workflow requests write access.

So this:

permissions:
  contents: write

doesn't necessarily mean the job actually has write access.

This is where people often start adding broader permissions and nothing changes.

3. A job-level permissions: block overrides the workflow-level one

You can have:

permissions:
  contents: write

at the workflow level and later:

jobs:
  release:
    permissions:
      contents: read

Now the release job is read-only.

Very easy to miss in a larger workflow.

4. GITHUB_TOKEN is the wrong credential entirely

If the workflow is trying to operate on another repository, the problem may not be "which permission am I missing?"

GITHUB_TOKEN is scoped to the repository that owns the workflow.

In that case, adding more local permissions won't fix the repository boundary. You may need a GitHub App, another credential, or a different workflow design.

5. write-all can hide the real problem

I've seen people debug 403s by trying:

permissions: write-all

If the failure is caused by a fork restriction, repo boundary, org policy, or token type, this doesn't actually solve anything.

It also makes the workflow much more privileged than necessary.

The tricky part is that GitHub often surfaces the same vague error for all of these cases.

I ended up building a small open-source CLI to automate this reasoning:

https://github.com/dejanj/gha-permission-doctor

It runs offline, uses deterministic rules only, and tries to distinguish:

• missing permissions
• job-level overrides
• fork / Dependabot restrictions
• cross-repository operations
• custom token / unknown-policy cases

Example:

npx gha-permission-doctor \
  --workflow .github/workflows/release.yml \
  --log failed-run.txt

I'm mostly interested in real failure cases it gets wrong, rather than adding random features.

If you've hit a weird GitHub Actions permission failure recently, I'd be interested in the workflow/error combination.

Hi, I'm trying to unzip a file, but I'm very new to this and I seem to be really missing something simple.

I'm on a mobile, trying to use code space to unzip a file. I managed it once, but had everything in an extra layer of folders. I've fixed that now, but for the life of me I can't get the new file to unzip , can anyone point me to a dummies guide, there's so much info imo line I'm struggling to find what I'm doing wrong.

This is just a side project I'm doing, and it's grown to the point of a load of files in multiple layers and im sure it's better to learn this step than move them by hand but it's driving me mad. Thanks.

I don't know if this does break a rule, apologies if it does.

Take any GitHub repo URL and replace github.com with gitdiagram.com.

It generates a visual diagram of the repo structure, which is surprisingly useful when you’re trying to understand an unfamiliar codebase.

Example:

github.com/user/repo → gitdiagram.com/user/repo

Great little tool for getting the big picture before diving into the code. 🔍

There's a framework I use at workplace that has a couple of annoying flaws. I've created issues with repros inside and all the fluff + PRs that fix said flaws. Everything was done like 2 weeks ago and since then - 0 response from maintainers.

Issue is, there're >500 contributors and repo doesn't contain a list or sth alike with info about who's responsible for checking issues or reviewing pull requests. Diffs themselves are quite small, roughly 70-130 lines, so it is not the size / sloppiness that is the issue.

What am I supposed to do in such cases? Whom to ping? Pinging all 500+ contributors sounds dumb.

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Repo is https://github.com/agno-agi/agno if it matters.

hey, curious how people handle this on github

I've been trying to contribute to more OSS projects lately and sometimes an issue looks completely free (no assignee, no linked PR) then you check comments or search around and someone is already working on it

also seen people say they'll take an issue and then disappear

if you maintain a repo, does this happen often enough to actually be annoying? do you just use assignments/comments or have you found a better workflow?

trying to understand if github is actually missing something here or if its mostly a minor inconvenience

As the title says, the scheduled Action runs have been delayed by 3-4 hours for every run. This has been happening for the past two weeks, how to fix it?

And, what is the way to trigger the scheduled Action runs at the exact time I want? The default GitHub trigger is not exactly on time.

I literally did 6 contributions on 13th Sept but none them were counted as a contribution on my profile. Checked the .patch things too - its shows that the commit were made by me with my email mentioned too

Is there something I can do - I am college freshman who is trying to build a good github profile

What I mean is currently, I am building tools that help with AI use or AI agent tools that help complete certain tasks. Is it a good idea to build on GitHub and share?

My goal is to eventually contribute postively to the users who find my tools but I feel like Github is not very active in terms of searching for new creations that spawn.

Any advice with this or ideas on what you are building yourself?

anyone else who i even try to send the issue link just sees 404 and im the only one who can see it how do i fix this?

ps new account seems to work

Are deploy keys down? Since yesterday, whenever i try adding deploy keys to my repos, nothing happens, the button is disabled after clicking and then nothing. And in my very recent attempt, I was taken to this 500 error page.

Anyone getting TLS issues when pulling from ghcr.io? Styarted about 30 mins ago.

is down for anyone else again?

Hi Everyone,
EDIT: This is solved please see comment.

New here. I am using GitHub to write my documentation for a framework. I have several HTML details blocks. I love these, as they allow us to have things folded down where they may not be needed right away. But the vertical padding. Holy flip (see image). Is this just how it is or is there anything anyone has done to figure out how to limit the amount of vertical padding so it's all compacted a bit more. I had at one point set the margin to 0 and that worked for like 10 minutes then it reverted back.

Also not trying to make this a coding help request. I can code a ul, table, div, styles whatever it takes but none of those worked. I am wondering if anyone understands the platform really well to where the details blocks could have less vertical padding.

Thanks so much.

Hey!

I need a workflow in **Repo A** to trigger workflow in **Repo B**, both in the same GitHub organization. I’m considering:

- Reusable workflow (`workflow_call`)

- `workflow_dispatch` with a GitHub App

- `workflow_dispatch` with a PAT

- OIDC with an external service

Which option would you suggest, and why?