I have Dependabot configured to create PRs in groups/batches, at scheduled times (weekly), and sometimes that works. Most of the time I'm getting multiple individual PRs opened at arbitrary times.

If I were only maintaining a single project, I could live with that. But because of multiple PRs and me maintaining so many things, I've seen over 200 PRs in a day. With tests, updating every time another PR merges, tests running again, deploy previews (Netlify, so this costs for build times), and production deploys when merged, it's just way too much!

Does anyone else have this issue? Or has anyone figured out how to get all the updates at once on a fixed schedule (I'd allow a critical security update outside of the schedule)? Because I'm starting to seriously consider ditching it. It's just annoying at this point.

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I'm learning GitHub Actions and have set up a self-hosted runner inside an Ubuntu Docker container on my Windows machine.

My workflow uses actions/setup-java to install Java 17:

- name: Set up JDK 17
  uses: actions/setup-java@v4
  with:
    java-version: '17'
    distribution: 'temurin'
    cache: maven

However, the job gets stuck at the Set up JDK 17 step. The logs stop at:

Resolved latest version as 17.0.20+101
JDK cache is not found for Temurin-Hotspot 17.0.20+101
Trying to download...
Downloading Java 17.0.20+101 (Temurin-Hotspot) ...

I tested the download URL manually from inside the container using curl. The download repeatedly stops before completion and returns:

curl: (18) Transferred a partial file

I also tried resuming the download with curl -C - and retry options, but it failed again. A basic connectivity test to https://github.com returns HTTP 200.

The runner itself appears to be connected and running jobs correctly. I haven't yet confirmed whether the issue is related to the network, the GitHub release download redirect, a proxy, or something else.

My questions:

1. What could cause curl: (18) Transferred a partial file to occur repeatedly when downloading a large release asset?
2. How can I identify whether the problem is caused by my network, a redirect destination, a proxy, or the download server?
3. Is there a recommended way to configure actions/setup-java on a Docker-based self-hosted runner to avoid this issue?

I'd appreciate any troubleshooting steps or suggestions. Thanks!

Github seems to be suffering from yet another outage. I can't seem to open any file from any repository.

Anyone else experiencing the same? I wonder if it's something local or not.

(Location: Netherlands)

Hi.

I can’t email Github.

had anyone had the issue that “email domain could not be verified“ pops up after they put their email in?

I don’t want to use another email.
it s a hotmail. Does anyone have a solution to this?

I want to report an irregularity regarding an adult content website (sex store) that lacks an age filter, but my account has my name on it and I don't want my personal information to be seen.

If you have been pushing hundreds of PRs every day with coding agents and finishing your GitHub Actions quota, I built this CI cost simulator for you.

https://celesto.ai/ci

When I try to add an emoji to my status, the app immediately closes the emoji selection menu.

I’m not a computer guy and apparently resetting my password doesn’t work cause passwords no longer supported and I guess my old ip was trusted or something cause I just moved house and didn’t know that meant I cant get into my fkn GitHub so I can update 1 god forsaken file for a RICS repo .. all the “help” I’ve found tells me to go into dev settings to set up a Tokken or a SSH KEY and to put it frank I HAVE NO F’ing CLUE WHAT THAT MEANS!!! Nor can I log into it to get to where the settings section is located to be able to get or change or activate the friggin token or things it’s saying I need now!?

I don’t know what this git pull or push or whatever it is and there doesn’t seem to be any other options.

Best part now I have a second login for whatever damn reason and now when I try to switch to my offical acc it just keeps logging me in as the stupid second acc it’s INFURIATING to put it lightly..

Why even have a password rest thing if it’s not gonna bloody work???

Can someone explain what it is I need to do to get into my GitHub.. in Laymans terms ?

If not can someone push this through to a GitHub feedback place cause rn I’m just getting advised from some friends to just make a new one and fork the repo again as it’ll be faster but I don’t like the idea that it’s better to do that each time leaving a trail of half baked GitHub’s rather than just fixing the one I need 💁‍♂️

Only GitHub Actions here, not AWS or other cloud bills.

Mine is tiny: a few dollars a month, almost all from test runs I do on purpose. So I don't feel this cost myself, and I'd like to know how it looks for real teams.

If your company pays GitHub for Actions:

- Roughly what is the bill per month?

- Does anyone look at it, and how often?

- Has it ever caused a real problem? A surprise jump, a question from finance, jobs stopped because the budget ran out? Or is it too small next to everything else to matter?

Rough numbers are fine. "It's tiny and nobody cares" is a useful answer too.

I'm a solo developer building a small tool in this area, so I'd rather learn the real numbers than guess. No link.

Anyone else experiencing intermittent outages with github today? I am routinely getting the unicorn error page.

The offiicial x account and also the status page do not indicate an outage.

I recently started using GIthub as part of my hobbie with GPT and codex. For years before i used github i just synced my folder with google drive. When i started using github i didnt think anything of it but randomly i mentioned that in a GPT chat and now i am down a rabbit hole of robocopy + nas + task scheduler.

When GPT said it was bad i started ask about alternative setups and what i wanted was still some system that worked similar to google drive with file revisions and all the niceties.

I let GPT lead me around with all sort of idea and since i dont want more third party programs I am now trying to setup robocopy -> NAS, then NAS -> a cloud provider with CLI scripts.

I am wondering since i am new to this somewhat and i dont know what i dont know.

Is there a simpler solution that is somewhat hands off?
I thought about just trying to be mindful and pausing sync when i want to do codex work or change branches but that is a habit that would take time and may never form.

I am open to ideas and workflows if anyone is willing to share.

Ok, I'm wondering about good backup services and stratagems for two disaster cases. Having a git-clone on a backup disk is a first step, but I'm not certain of exactly what data is missed by this. Any suggestions for a way to survive cases like the ones below?

1. Assume that somehow your entire github account gets mangled somehow and you want a complete backup of everything (repos, history, branches, bug tracking, lfs...etc) that can be restored to a fresh github site. Ie: a complete replica of everything. What do you use?

2. Assume that through some disaster, all of github is completely wiped out and no longer available and you want a backup that could be restored to some other source control system (perforce...etc) preserving as much of the github information and history as possible. What then?

Not sure if this content is allowed on this sub, so please forgive me if it isn't.

Got this random email on my github alias. I have just a few repos, of which half archived. I've published a few serious programs/scripts.

I'm pretty sure the email is a scam. There's real context or clear explanation what this guy actually wants. The email is pretty generic too: [name+surname][random number]©gmail.

It's been quite a while that I've seen something like this.

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Hello,

I ended up reading through some of your [..] code, and it's clean. you've been at this on GitHub for about [oddly specific no] years, which says a lot.

Quick context: I'm K, a developer. I'm putting together something small and I want a second pair of hands in [my country] on it. Not a job offer, more of a two-people-building-a-thing situation.

No pressure at all. If a quick chat sounds useful, just reply when you can.

All the best,

K

(In case this is actually legit, I've ofc abbreviated his name)

Don't trust status.github.com - they're not honest about their uptime. Currently says "All Systems Operational" but we know the truth GitHub 💀

Starting to see GitHub issues for the 3rd day in a row.

I have made around ~60 commits to that repository, most of which were around ~20-50 LOC and are not rendered here at all. The three commits in the middle are +389-69, +431-383 and 321. Then there are these 2 massive +28,33k commit and +5,541-29,059 commit. Is there any way to filter out those outliers?

I checked the Github Status page and it shows all system are operational.

The project is not new and it has 209 commits, I was able to push until yesterday without problems

How I automated AWS Lambda deployments with GitHub Actions, self-managed S3 code storage.

GitHub now lets organization and enterprise admins see which repositories have AI Scan for pull requests enabled in the Security overview coverage view. The new view shows enabled and not enabled repository counts, supports filters for each state, and adds the AI Scan status to CSV exports.

This is an adoption and governance update, not a new scan-quality result. It gives teams a way to measure rollout, but the changelog does not report whether AI Scan catches more vulnerabilities or improves review outcomes. That distinction matters as GitHub teams decide where AI checks belong in the review process.

Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-06-code-scanning-ai-scan-enablement-status-in-security-overview/

I keep seeing 30+ unique cloners everyday for my open-source project and it often exceeds the number of unique viewers of my repo. Is this all bots?

Is it just me, or has GitHub been painfully slow and laggy since yesterday’s update? Every action seems to have a noticeable delay. Typing comments on PRs or opening tickets has become so slow that it’s barely usable.