Improved repository creation generally available, plus ruleset & insights improvements

GitHub’s improved repository creation experience is now generally available. When you create a new repository, you’ll see a streamlined workflow that makes setting up repositories faster and more intuitive.

Highlights

• When you create a new repository, there’s an updated flow with clearer guidance for required fields.
• The new experience helps you get set up quickly and confidently.
• Inputs now respond to organization and enterprise policies for custom properties, making governance-driven rules easier to adopt.

Additional updates

• You can now add the merge queue bot as a bypass actor for rulesets for repository and organization rulesets. Now merge queue branches (e.g., gh-readonly-queue/**) work as expected while allowing you to blocking updates from other actors.
• We’ve updated the repository insights commits page to make the commit graph accessible to screen readers. You can also view commit data as a table or download it as a CSV or PNG.

Feedback

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