Best of GitHub Blog — October 2022

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   js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆

   A total of 167 games were submitted this year. The theme of this year’s competition was DEATH and I’ve been just dying to share the winning entries with you. Here are the top ten thirteen as rated and reviewed by players and judges.

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   Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

   Fine-grained personal access tokens give developers granular control over the permissions and repository access they grant to a PAT. Personal access tokens (PATs) are given permissions from a broad set of read and write scopes. They have access to all of the repositories and organizations the user could access. They’re not associated with an individual user who may leave your company or project.

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   Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬

   Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.

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   Highlights from Git 2.38

   Git's new built-in repository management tool, Scalar, attempts to solve the problem by curating and configuring a uniform set of features with the biggest impact on large repositories. The sparse index is a relatively new Git feature that enables Git to shrink the size of its index data structure to only track the contents of your sparse checkout.

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   Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022

   Hacktoberfest 2022 is back for its ninth year. We all use and depend on open source to power our digital world. In the past year alone, we saw over 2.6 billion contributions on GitHub. You can contribute to several GitHub projects participating this year, including GitHub Docs.

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   Improving navigation for GitHub Actions

   GitHub Actions has evolved into its own product, helping developers set up their CI/CD pipelines. Today, we’re introducing an improved navigation that will support the future of GitHub Actions. Users can now find the Usage and Workflow file for their workflow run, right from the sidebar.

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