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We’re looking forward to seeing you at the 2016 Dodgeball Tournament for friendly competition, team bonding, the chance to take home the OctoTrophy, and best of all, the opportunity to…

Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…

A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…

Technology has fundamentally changed the way people work. As businesses from every industry build more software, new challenges and opportunities arise. Join us at GitHub Satellite to glimpse how developers…

Going to be in St. Louis next week for the FIRST Robotics Competition? Or maybe you’re a St. Louis local who is curious about Git or GitHub? In either case,…

We’re pleased to welcome an excellent lineup of speakers to GitHub Satellite, the first ever international event in the GitHub Universe conference series. On May 11, 2016, 500 people will…

CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. We’re searching for the best talks that the open source community has to…

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To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…

We shipped subresource integrity a few months back to reduce the risk of a compromised CDN serving malicious JavaScript. That is a big win, but does not address related content…

Patchwork comes back to Europe on April 19. If you’re in the Reading, UK area, we hope you can come hang out with us at GROW@GreenPark. The event is open…

When you’re building software with people from around the world, sometimes it’s important to validate that commits and tags are coming from an identified source. Git supports signing commits and…

There are no shortage of open source projects making an impact on our world, and we’ve been especially excited to see an increase in collaboration across the healthcare community. A…

Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we’ve built DGit, a new…

Community is one of the most important aspects of open source, but sometimes a few bad actors can ruin the experience for the group. To help address the problem, organization…

Philadelphia friends, we hope you can join us for a Patchwork on April 12 at Pipeline Philly. If you’re local or in town for Philly Emerging Tech, we’d love to…

To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…

Git’s flexibility allows you to shape your workflow however you like. The organization of your git history is just one of the choices to make, but up until now the…

Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…

GitHub Satellite is the first-ever international event in the GitHub Universe series, and it’s happening May 11, 2016, in Amsterdam. More than 500 developers, team leads, and open source contributors…

Git Merge kicks off in less than a week in New York City on April 5th—and tickets are already sold out! The conference will bring together Git contributors, source control…