@mention autocompletion
@mentions are a great way to pull someone into a issue or pull request. Internally we use a /cc convention to call out people. A lot of our issues look…
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Scheduled Maintenance Sunday Night
We'll be performing scheduled maintenance this Sunday night (December 11th, 2011) from 18:00 - 20:00 PST to double the RAM in our MySQL and Redis servers. HTTP and Git access…
GitHub for Mac 1.1
We released GitHub for Mac almost exactly 5 months ago. Today we're excited to release its first big update. So, what's new? Redesigned changes The entire changes view has been…
Git.io: GitHub URL Shortener
Do you have a GitHub URL you'd like to shorten? Use Git.io! $ curl -i https://git.io -F "url=https://github.com/..." HTTP/1.1 201 Created Location: https://git.io/abc123 $ curl -i https://git.io/abc123 HTTP/1.1 302 Found…
Access your Event timelines and OAuth tokens through the API
Today we're announcing two new API features: Event Timeline access, and OAuth Authorizations. We've also tweaked the way mime types work in preparation for the finalization of API v3. …
GitPad: Write your commits in Notepad
For many developers getting started with Git on Windows, one of the confusing features of Git is that the default editor for commit messages is Vim. While Vim is a…
Say Hello to Hubot
For the past year or so we've been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he…
GitHub Secrets
Over the years we've added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features. Let's talk about some of those…
Improved Subversion Client Support
About a year and a half ago we announced SVN client support, which could be used for limited access to GitHub repositories from Subversion clients. Today we're launching new, improved…
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…
Deploy to AppHarbor from GitHub
AppHarbor, an awesome Git-aware hosting platform for .NET web projects, has announced support for integrating GitHub projects into their build system. Set up correctly, this means that pushing to GitHub…
Issues Dashboard for Organizations
Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last. Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page! You can also use the context button to switch between organizations…
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…
Introducing Issue Mentions
With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned…
Recent Load Balancer Problems
Over the past few weeks, we've had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause - instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here's a…