Git Internals PDF Open Sourced
Over 5 years ago, shortly after GitHub initially launched, Chris pointed out on one of our earliest blog posts this Peepcode PDF on Git internals that I had just written:…
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Git Merge Berlin 2013
Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they’ve…
New Git Homepage
For the last few months a few of us here at GitHub have been working on a new homepage for the Git project. I designed the original site years ago…
GitHub Drinkup, Ventura Edition
Next Thursday, April 12th, GitHub will be sponsoring a drinkup in my hometown of Ventura, CA at the Anacapa Brewing Company at 8pm. Come join us for some free beer…
First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament a Success!
The first annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament was held yesterday in San Francisco at the Mission Rec Center. 17 teams joined us for 4 hours of ball throwing fun, in the…
Better Pull Request Emails
Since the new pull requests shipped just over a year ago, we have been sending out pretty sparse emails when someone created a new pull request on one of your…
Drinkup in Helsinki Tonight
GitHub is in Helsinki, Finland for the first Reaktor Dev Day. To celebrate, we’re sponsoring a GitHub drinkup in Helsinki tonight (Friday, Sep 2) at the after party tonight at…
Zurich Drinkup Tonight, Sunday Aug 21
GitHub is in Zurich tonight and will be hosting a drinkup at Paddy Reilly’s at 8pm. Come on out and meet us and let us buy you a beer. Hope…
GitHub Training Tomorrow
Tomorrow, August 16th, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough. If you or your teammates need to get up to speed on Git…
Online Git Training next Monday
It is that time once again! Next Monday, June 13, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or…
Seattle/Redmond Drinkup on Sat, May 7
If you’re in the Seattle area, we’re doing a drinkup in Bellevue, WA (in-between Seattle and Redmond) tomorrow night – Saturday, May 7th at 7pm. Tim and I will be…
GitHub Drinkup Cambridge – Mon, May 2
GitHub is in town again and wants to buy you some beer at John Harvards once again! Be there at 7pm or so and we’ll keep the pitchers a-coming. tl;dr:…
Forking with the Edit Button
You’ve been able to edit files in repositories you own on GitHub for years. But today, we’ve improved the workflow for this functionality. You can now edit files in repositories…
Online Training Next Monday
Next Monday, April 11, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or your teammates need to get up…
GitHub Drinkup, New York
It’s been a few weeks, so it seems like time to do another GitHub Drinkup in New York. This time PJ and I will be at the Apple Bombar near…