New Create/Delete Events
You’ve created a repo on GitHub, written a bunch of great code, and now it’s time to push it: Here’s what happens on GitHub now: Along with the create events,…
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Sale Extended!
We were having such a good time watching people sign up today, we figured we should just keep the fun going and extend the sale until Sunday. Also, there was…
Cyber Monday Sale
If you’ve been waiting to see what the fuss was about, today is the day to join GitHub. We’re offering a free month on all of the paid plans if…
PDF Receipts
We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we’re…
Our RubyGem build scripts are now open source
The amount of people running into issues with our gem builder has been overwhelming, so we’re releasing the code if some kind souls want to lend a hand making the…
Hub it up when the economy’s bad
Economies around the world have hit a serious rough patch, and some folks may be looking for work elsewhere. What better way to impress your new employer than to include…
Repo Deletion for Everyone
Here’s our latest feature: Did ya spot it? It’s the delete button! No, we’re not crazy. Prior to today, if you had a project that had been forked, you were…
Subversion Importing!
Double plus update: Check out our help documentation for full details on importing from SVN. Update: There have been reports of hanging on the import authors page and the import…
Pull Request Auto-Responder
We just rolled out a new feature that allows you to activate an auto-response to any pull requests you receive. Here’s a few use cases that make this a pretty…
Show Me the Money
There have been a fair amount of requests for this feature and we were happy to oblige. If you click the “Update Credit Card” link on your account page, there’s…
Let There Be Renaming
Repositories can be renamed via their edit page. Users can be renamed via their account page. That is all.
Revamping the Guides
In an effort to make everyone’s Git and GitHub experience a little easier, we’re currently working on overhauling our guides. The first step was to replace the existing guides homepage…
Improved SSH Key Organization
The original ssh public key interface left a lot to be desired. It’s was bulky, unintuitive, and altogether a pain to manage if you had lots of public keys. With…
Scaling Lesson #23742
GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…
Supercharged Ruby-Git
One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let’s open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…