The latest blogs from GitHub

When you first started using GitHub, you read every notification that trickled in with interest and stayed up-to-date on projects with ease. It gets more difficult when you start to…

Manage your repositories’ incoming issues more efficiently with a few new updates: a keyword and saved reply to mark duplicate issues, along with a clearer, more informative style for keywords.…

Nearly three years ago GitHub joined millions of people and hundreds of companies to support the open internet. In 2015 the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed net neutrality…

GitHub presents Field Day—a one-day unconference for leaders of technical student communities. Students will share how they build communities, learn from each other’s successes and mistakes, and explore how they…

Professor Chris Lupo has taught at California Polytechnic State University for eight years and recently revamped his upper-level Architecture course using GitHub Classroom. In this post, he shares his workflow…

Katrina is an Open Source Advocate at GitHub. As a frequent speaker and proposal reviewer for conferences like GitHub Universe, she’s seen hundreds of speaker proposals—and written a few as…

While effective code review is essential to every successful project, it’s not always clear who should review files—even with GitHub’s reviewer suggestions. Now repository maintainers can define exactly which people…

You’re invited to watch, fork, and collaborate on GitHub’s Terms of Service and other site policies. Back in March we open sourced our Balanced Employee IP Agreement. The feedback from…

Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping…

This post was written by our partners at Sentry—an open source error tracker that helps you prioritize, identify, reproduce, and fix issues. Install Sentry from GitHub Marketplace or the Student…

Over 600 people made their way to London and attended our second GitHub Satellite last month. From new developers to seasoned software entrepreneurs, attendees came together for two days of…

Review requests are a great way to get the people you need to look at your work. Now with team requests, you can find the right group of people and…

The GitHub for Unity extension we announced at the Game Developers Conference last March is now open source! Download the latest release for Windows and OS X for free, and…

Git LFS v2.2.0 is now available with the all-new git-lfs-migrate command, making it easier than ever to start using Git LFS in your repository. For example, if you’ve tried to…

Open source software powers the internet. Anyone using a computer uses open source, either directly or indirectly. Although it has become the industry standard, getting involved isn’t always straightforward. Because…

Through dozens of global partnerships, GitHub is committed to investing in communities traditionally underrepresented in tech. As part of that initiative, we’re expanding our partnership with Maven, a national non-profit…

School may be (almost) out for summer, but we’re still adding to the Student Developer Pack. Sentry is now offering error reporting to new and existing pack members—send up to…

Whether you need something to wear for a beach vacation or some heat hibernation, your shirt of the summer is here—now with more glow. Check out the GitHub Drip Tee…

Last week, we hosted our first ever GitHub Constellation event in Tokyo. 200 software enthusiasts joined us to hear talks from GitHub engineers, customers and partners. In case you missed…

We’re introducing two new tools to help maintain and grow open source communities. Recommended community standards As an open source project grows beyond code, it can be difficult to maintain…

Now you can use multiple levels of nested teams to reflect your group or company’s hierarchy within your GitHub organization, making your organization’s permissions structure clearer and easier to manage.…