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Use Labels

You can use labels to classify issues and pull requests and to improve your overview over them.

Creating Labels

Section titled “Creating Labels”

  1. Go to the Issues tab and select Labels to get to the labels management page.

  2. Click New label.

  3. Enter the name and select the color of the new label.

  4. Define if the label should be exclusive or not.

Organization-wide Labels

Section titled “Organization-wide Labels”

You can define organization-wide labels that are shared with all organization repositories, including both already-existing repositories as well as newly created ones. Organization-wide labels can be created in the organization Settings.

Label Sets

Section titled “Label Sets”

When you create a repository (or an organization), you can ensure certain labels exist by using the Issue Labels option. This option lists a number of available label sets that are configured globally on your instance.