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GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop extends and simplifies your Git and GitHub workflow
using a visual interface.

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About GitHub Desktop

Sharing feedback

About GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop is an open source tool that enables you to be more productive. GitHub Desktop
encourages you and your team to collaborate using best practices with Git and GitHub.

Just a few of the many things you can do with GitHub Desktop are:

Add changes to your commit interactively

Quickly add co-authors to your commit
Checkout branches with pull requests and view CI statuses
Compare changed images

For more information about GitHub Desktop, see "Installing and configuring GitHub Desktop" in
the GitHub Desktop documentation.

Sharing feedback
If you have feedback or feature requests, you can open an issue in the desktop/desktop
repository.

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