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GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions

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This GitHub for Beginners finale tackles the most common questions new users face: setting up SSH keys, creating Personal Access Tokens (both fine-grained and classic), resolving merge conflicts, undoing commits, syncing forked repos, and reviewing pull requests. Each topic includes concrete terminal commands and UI steps, making it a practical reference for developers just getting comfortable with GitHub workflows.

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