[crynix]

Well, of course you need to give the markdown extension to files which should be rendered as such. How else is Github supposed to know which files are markdown?

Github Pages is strictly for hosting static files. Thus, it's not meant for discussion between users. You're better of renting a VPS and hosting your project's website on it.

[derekp7]

Yes, i understand the logic behind that, but had a difficult time finding the specific extention documented. That was just a recent example for illustration. What I'm trying to find is a full user manual for github. Not little tidbits scattered all over. Does that exist, and I'm just not finding it? I just keep feeling I'm missing a lot of functionality somewhere. Or maybe im expecting it to be a full alternative to something like Sourceforge when it isn't intended to be. Thanks.

[crynix]

A complete introduction to Git can be found at http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html. I know you mentioned that you're comfortable with Git, but some of the information there may be of some use.

GitHub has a series of help articles, which could be regarded as a manual of sorts. They're at https://help.github.com/