Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
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Developer skills
Trying to grow in your career as a developer or software engineer? You’re in the right place. Explore articles, resources, interviews, and more that cover essential skills for developers, ranging from learning new programming languages and tools to improving soft skills such as communication and collaboration.
Rebase and merge pull requests
The merge button on pull requests supports two great workflows with merge commits and commit squashing. Now you can use the merge button to rebase and merge your changes, too.…
The GitHub GraphQL API
GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We’ve evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and consistent interface.
Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages
You might be familiar with how GitHub Pages helps you share your work with the world or maybe you have attended a class that helped you build your first GitHub…
Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
Meet Josh Simpson, student, developer, and hackathon advocate
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Josh Simpson, who is currently pursuing his computer science degree at King’s College…
Pin repositories to your GitHub profile
You can now showcase the repositories that best represent your work on your GitHub profile. Using the “Pinned repositories” list, you can pin any public repository you have contributed to.…
Kindly Closing Pull Requests
Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…
Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
A month ago, we announced that GitHub Pages had upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will no longer support Textile. If you are currently using Textile…
Issue and Pull Request templates
It’s hard to solve a problem when important details are missing. Now project maintainers can add templates for Issues and Pull Requests to projects, helping contributors share the right details…
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Automating code deployment with GitHub and Azure
There are many cloud services that support automated code deployment from GitHub. In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at connecting a GitHub repository to a Microsoft…
How to write the perfect pull request
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
The best developer tools, now free for students
There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our…
OctoTales • UC Berkeley
Computer science professor, Armando Fox, is one of the thousands of teachers who use GitHub to give their students hands-on experience writing software in teams. On a recent trip to…
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