JSLint is on GitHub
We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there's a more detailed explanation available here. The…
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Today’s Outage
A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets
This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We've been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…
New uploader & downloads screen
Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 2: SSL Everywhere
Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…
All of your downloads. One big button.
Update: Uploads have been deprecated A couple of weeks ago, downloads on GitHub were everywhere — we had the Download Source buttons, the Downloads tab, and, some clicks away, perhaps…
This Morning’s Git Protocol Outage
Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…
A little help for merging pull requests
While you're waiting for the long anticipated MergeButton™, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few bits of documentation we have for pull requests. If you have any…
Twitter Service Hooks Return
A few weeks back twitter removed basic auth support and as a result many of you haven't been receiving twitter notifications for changes to your repositories. We've taken the the…
Pull Requests 2.0
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You've used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we're taking it to…
Mozilla Labs on GitHub
Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabs Read the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub. Rumor has it we'll be seeing more from Mozilla…
Git Notes Display
Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested…
Design updates
Earlier today we rolled out a minor design update to the site. Notably, we have a brand new home page (remember, you can always get to the homepage at http://github.com/home):…
Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis
We've been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we're launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to…
GitHub Jobs
You all know about GitHub Jobs by now, so we thought we'd kick off the official launch by highlighting some cool jobs we've found in the past seven days. Some…