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This guide will walk you through setting up the GitHub integration. The Orbit GitHub integration will automatically ingest contributors and activities from the repos you provide access to. We'll create a profile for every contributor, a global and personal timeline for all activities, and generate an automatic report.

The table below summarizes what is included in this integration:

With your workspace created, the next step is to install the Orbit for GitHub app, which will sync your repos with your workspace.

You can find GitHub in the list  the Integrations page in your workspace's Settings.

The Orbit app will ask for Read-only permissions, and you can select which repos it will have access to.

🚧 If you aren’t the admin of the GitHub organization, you won’t be able to install the app yourself, you’ll need to request it.

You can import all repositories, or select any number of specific ones.

If you choose "All", Orbit will connect to all public repositories. If you choose a specific set of repositories, public or private, Orbit will connect to those and those only. If you wish to have a hybrid of public and private repositories connected to Orbit, you'll need to choose "Only select repositories" and select all of the ones you're interested in.

📘 Tip: you can attach multiple GitHub orgs to an Orbit workspace

Orbit will now import all the previous activities and contributors from your organization's repos and be set up to grab any of those activities that happen in future. It may take a few minutes to fully sync.

The full list of activities that this integration will monitor are as follows:

You can check all of the activity types created by the GitHub integration (and any other integration) from your workspace Settings page, by clicking on Activity Types.

If you need to update which repos are included in your workspace, navigate to the Integrations section of your workspace Settings. Your GitHub settings can be modified by clicking on GitHub in the Connected Integrations list.

Locate the Repository permissions section on the settings page. You will be directed to GitHub to manage which repositories Orbit has access to.

You may notice a small discrepancy between the count of GitHub stars and the count of GitHub issues showing in GitHub vs Orbit.

A small discrepancy between the count of GitHub stars shown in GitHub vs count of GitHub stars shown in Orbit is expected. One reason is that Orbit does not track removed stars or "un-stars". Therefore, you can expect Orbit to reflect a slightly higher star count than you see in GitHub.

GitHub issues are typically represented 1:1 between GitHub and Orbit. If it's not 1:1, there can be a few situations that explain why the discrepancy exists:

Note that this information also applies to pull requests.

Orbit regularly checks our metrics against GitHub to make sure that any discrepancies are small and for known reasons. Please let us know if you see data that is missing or numbers that seem incorrect. Thank you!