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      • Page byline: "Github (Capable)"
      • Capable → Github catalogue page
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      • Multiple GitHub accounts per person
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      • GitHub settings
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      • Working with other capabilities
      • Authentication model
      • OAuth scopes requested
      • Consent behaviour
      • Connect flow
      • Where connecting is possible
      • Connected account identity
      • Connection health checking
      • Revocation
      • Public file path (no connection needed)
      • Private file path
      • Network destinations
      • Repository listing
    • Reference
      • Limits
      • What is not available
    • Troubleshooting
      • Everything else
        • Turned off "Show Line Numbers" but the line-number gutter is still there
        • Set a Title in the Browse GitHub picker but no heading appears on the page
        • Turned "Show Border" off (or on) and the file looks exactly the same
        • Re-picked the file through Browse GitHub and my Show Border / Show Line Numbers choices reset, and m
        • Pasted a link with a line range like #L10-L20 but the whole file is shown
        • Pasted a GitHub URL and it did not turn into a macro
        • Pasted a link like github.com/owner/repo/blob/refs/heads/main/file.md and the macro is broken
        • Logged-out readers see a sign-in notice instead of the file
        • Disconnect button does nothing
        • GitHub asks me to authorise again every single time, even though I already connected
        • Connection stopped working and I have to reconnect from scratch
        • File on the page changed even though nobody edited the Confluence page
        • Macro shows an error, and the file used to be there
        • Filtered search by File Type "ts" (or "py") as the help text suggests and got no results
      • Permissions and access
        • There is a Description setting but I cannot find anywhere to type one, and nothing shows
        • Cannot find the GitHub macro in Capable's macro list, the command palette, or the automation "Insert
        • Readers see "Connect a GitHub account with access to this repository to view this file"
        • Admin wants to connect GitHub once on behalf of the whole site, and cannot find the setting
        • Macro cannot find a file in a repository that still uses "master"
        • Cannot choose a different branch in the Browse GitHub picker
        • Cannot find a public repository I do not belong to in the picker
        • Cannot filter search for image files
        • Macro says none of my accounts have access, but I am certain I do
        • Cannot find a "Connections" area on the Capable → Github page
      • Something is missing or looks wrong
        • Branch or a folder entry I expect is missing from the picker
        • Just added a GitHub macro but the page does not appear in search or in the Github catalogue
        • Byline is missing everywhere, or in one space
        • Exported the page to PDF or Word and the GitHub file is missing, with no explanation
        • Macro shows "This file is empty"
      • Export and published sites
        • On a published Capable Site the file is replaced by an amber note

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