The latest blogs from GitHub

Over 100,000 people push to protected branches nearly 300,000 times every week. We’ve been listening to how we can make protected branches even better and we’re happy to introduce two…

We know from community feedback and open source projects (like @notwaldorf’s Chrome extension) that replying with the same response to Issues and Pull requests over and over can be tedious.…

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. If you know Sean Marcia, chances are that it’s through Ruby for Good,…

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.8.0, featuring a variety of features, bugfixes, and other improvements from over 70 contributors. Here are some of the most useful…

We have reached an exciting milestone: one million people have launched some version of Atom in the last month. That’s three times the number of active users we had under…

We’re happy to be hosting a Patchwork hack night in Madison, Wisconsin, and we hope you’re able to come. If you’re a beginner to Git and GitHub, or want to…

At the heart of what makes GitHub great are the thousands of open source communities that build incredible things every day. The brand new GitHub Community Cast shines a light…

At Git Merge—a conference for the Git community—you’ll join developers who are committed to the future of Git. In addition to seeing an amazing lineup of speakers, attendees of all…

One of the most important elements of creating a strong community is shaping the new contributor experience. The on-boarding experience for new participants plays a huge role in how quickly…

Following up on the release of the Ruby Nanodegree program that we co-created with Udacity, we’ve extended our partnership to offer GitHub Student Developer Pack members one month of free…

Portland friends, we hope you’ll join us for a Patchwork hack night on March 29, that will be co-hosted with our friends at TaborSpace. If you’re a beginner to Git…

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…

Effective code review catches bugs before they’re deployed, improves code consistency, and helps educate new developers. We’re adding new features to make code review on GitHub faster and more flexible.…

OSCON is headed to Austin this year and we’re bringing back the GitHub Open Source Alley. The alley features open source projects from across the community where they can chat…

CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. This year’s event will focus on systems engineering projects, practices, and programs in…

We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on March 18, that will be co-hosted with our friends at University of Texas, El Paso. If you’re a high school or…

Every day, thousands of people are having conversations on GitHub around code, design, bugs, and new ideas. Sometimes there are complex and nuanced points to be made, but other times…

One of GitHub’s niche features is the ability to access a Git repository on GitHub using Subversion clients. Last year we re-architected a large portion of the Subversion bridge to work with our changing infrastructure.

Tens of thousands of game developers will descend upon San Francisco next week for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). But what would GDC be without the parties? Come by…

GitHub Desktop on both Windows and Mac now provides suggestions when mentioning team members, referencing Issues, and adding more 🎉 to your commit messages and Pull Requests. Just as you…

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…