Amsterdam Drinkup
@connors and myself are in town for BubbleConf, so we decided why not throw a drinkup? We'll be at The Tara tonight. Come on down for a beer or two…
Repository Next
Today we’re proud to announce a redesigned repository experience focused on your content, built for everyday use. We’ll be slowly rolling out the ability to opt-in to this new design…
Goodbye, Uploads
In addition to providing downloadable source code archives, GitHub previously allowed you to upload files (separate from the versioned files) in the repository, and make it available for download in…
Latest commit per directory
We've always shown the last commit to the Branch or Tag you're browsing on the root page of a repository: Now, we also show the latest commit per directory —…
How we keep GitHub fast
The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping…
Notifications & Stars
Today, we’re releasing a new version of our notifications system and changing the way you watch repositories on GitHub. You’ll find the new notifications indicator next to the GitHub logo…
An easier way to create repositories
Today we're rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. To start off, you'll find a new create repository button in your header. The new create…
Blob contributions box
GitHub is all about social coding. So today we're rolling out a blob contributions box. You can see it on every blob (file) view on GitHub. It'll show you the…
Zend Studio + GitHub
Yesterday Zend announced full support for Git and GitHub in the next version of Zend Studio (9.0). If you're a PHP developer, chances are you know about Zend — and…
The Code Tab
¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we've never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…
Shiny new commit styles
We just rolled out some redesigned commit blocks all over the site. They look a bit like this: There's all kinds of nice additions — notably, we'll show you the…
Those are some big numbers
Every night, our friendly Hubot pops into one of our Campfire rooms and posts some numbers. Turns out we passed some pretty significant numbers in the past couple days. And…
Issues 2.0: The Next Generation
Issue management: the final frontier. Almost two years ago to the day, GitHub launched an issue tracker. Some people love it, some people hate it — but let's not focus…
GitHub Drinkup in Bend, OR
Rick Olson, Brian Lopez and myself will be attending Ruby on Ales (still time to grab a ticket!) later this week in Bend, OR. We'll be hosting a meetup at…
Xcode 4 released with git integration
Today Apple released Xcode 4. We're pretty excited over here because Xcode 4 is the first Xcode release to support git natively. What's even more, new projects default to git…