Posts by

Rob Sanheim

@rsanheim

Keep Your Email Private

Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining cloaked in secrecy: Today we're :ship:ing the ability to make your email address private! Until…

Simpler Milestone Workflow

We just made working with milestones simpler and more explicit. Now when you want to close or open a milestone, you can do so from the milestone listing. Milestones will…

Better live updates

Pull Request live updates just became a little more awesome. We now automatically update the commits tab, and let you know when the diff tab is out out of date…

Three Million Users

Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account. That's three million developers building software…

Issue autocompletion

Today we're adding autocompletion for Issues and Pull Requests, similar to the @mention and emoji autocompletion you already know and love. Type # to see Issue and Pull Request suggestions,…

New close and merge notifications

We have just added notifications when a Pull Request is merged and when an Issue/Pull Request is closed or reopened. Issue Close: Merged Pull Request: You get the idea —…

Commit Status API

Today, we shipped an API for third party services to attach statuses to commits. We created this API to allow services to color the discussion on pull requests. For example,…

Madison Drinkup this Thursday

Join us this Thursday for a drinkup at the beautiful Great Dane in downtown Madison for local beer, classic pub food, and great conversation. It will serve as a great…

Email Verification

We are rolling out email address verification today: Verified email addresses will enable our support team to better assist you if you lose your password or have issues with missing…

Introducing Team Mentions

For a while now, you have been able to @mention a user when discussing issues, pull requests, and commits. Now you can use the same convention to mention a Team…