Marking a threaded comment as the answer

When we introduced GitHub Discussions in 2020, we allowed users to mark an answer to a question in the "Q&A" Discussions category. As the feature began getting more usage, we noticed that often, the real answer to a question may live in a reply to an answer. Today, we are introducing the ability for users to mark a threaded reply as the answer to a question.

All replies will now have a button to allow the questioner to mark them as the answer.
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Marking the reply as the answer highlights it and makes it clear to the reader where the real answer to the original question lives.
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This feature improves the accuracy of marked answers, while also reducing the burden on users to duplicate their text to get their answer marked as correct.

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Deprecation: Importing non-Git repositories with GitHub Importer

GitHub Importer allows you to import repositories from other code hosting platforms to GitHub.com using a UI or REST API.

Today, GitHub Importer supports Git, Mercurial, Subversion and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repositories.

From April 12, 2024, we will no longer support importing Mercurial, Subversion and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repositories. We’re ending support for this functionality due to extremely low levels of usage.

Even without GitHub Importer, moving from these alternative version control systems to Git is simple thanks to fantastic open source tools – for more details, read our Docs article, “Using the command line to import source code”.

EDIT: The original end of support date in this post was October 17, 2023. We delayed this change in order to give customers more time to adapt.

 

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Automatic rebases on Dependabot pull requests stop after 30 days of inactivity

When changes in a repository make a Dependabot pull request out-of-date, Dependabot will automatically rebase it so that it is able to be merged without your manual effort. With this release, if a PR has not been merged for 30 days, Dependabot will stop rebasing it and will include a note about this in the PR body. You will still be able to manually rebase and merge the pull request. We've heard your feedback about Dependabot noisiness and are making Dependabot quieter and more focused on repositories you care about. For enterprise customers, this improvement has the added benefit of enhanced efficiency with your self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. For Enterprise Server customers, this update will be available to you in GHES 3.10.

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