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GitHub Docs: About notifications and subscriptions

Documents GitHub notifications as updates for activity users are subscribed to, reasons a user receives notifications, inbox triage, customization, and notification retention.

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Follow / subscribe Choose follow / subscribe when the user is opting into future update delivery from a specific target. Activating Follow, Subscribe, or Watch creates or updates a subscription record for the named target, not merely a visual bookmark. GitHub describes notifications as updates about activity users have subscribed to and documents notification reasons, customization, inbox triage, and retention.

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