The latest blogs from GitHub

Last April we released the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, which lets you work on GitHub repositories in Visual Studio 2015. To celebrate Microsoft’s final release of Visual Studio 2015,…

We are excited to announce GitHub’s partnership with the White House and the Department of Housing and Urban Development that will equip low-income homes with affordable and free broadband wireless…

Add mass to your laptop and charge your accessories with this sticker pack made of Atoms and Electrons, now available in the GitHub Shop. Keep an ion them, they’ll be…

Previously, if you removed collaborator permissions from someone contributing to a private repository on your personal account, that person would retain their fork (if they had created one). Today, we’re…

If you would like a sneak peek at a new way to contribute to GitHub from your desktop, sign up for our First Look program. Opting in will give you…

At GitHub we have a lot of software running our product and company. We also have a lot of potential contributing members. Being able to get from git clone to…

The GitHub File Finder is now available on your mobile device. Just click the “Jump to file” link on any repository.

GitHub is pleased to announce that version 1.0 of the Atom text editor is now available from atom.io. Read the full behind the scenes story over on the Atom blog.…

Graphs, and pencils, and locks…Oh my! Now you can collect themed Octicon buttons with the four new button packs offered in the GitHub Shop.

We’re hosting Hackcon III at our San Francisco office on July 18th and 19th. Hackcon is the place to be for student hackathon organizers. The event is run by our…

A few days ago we announced that “GitHub is growing in Europe”. This growth is supported by GitHub teams based in UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The team in…

CodeConf is next week, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring the open source community together to exchange ideas and have some fun in Nashville. There are a few…

We’re excited to announce that our next Patchwork hack night will be on Tuesday, June 23, and will be co-hosted with our friends at Deavor Co-Working in Nashville. 🎉 🤘…

Last week we opened our first international office in Japan. This week we thought we’d take a closer look at Europe, which happens to be the largest demographic of GitHub…

You can now create deploy keys with read-only access. A deploy key is an SSH key that is stored on your server and grants access to a single GitHub repository.…

Like most software applications, GitHub can generate a few exceptions. Incoming exceptions range from system-level issues including Git timeouts and missing references, to application-level issues including simple code mistakes and…

One of the key points of GitHub’s engineering culture —and I believe, of any good engineering culture— is our obsession with aggressively measuring everything. Coda Hale’s seminal talk “Metrics, Metrics…

Navigating what’s most important to you on GitHub.com just got a little easier with our updated site header. The new header gives you faster access to your pull requests and…

Organizations have always been the best way for teams to work together and collaborate on code. We’re happy to announce major improvements to GitHub organization permissions. These improvements include new…

One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.

GitHub <3s Japan, and today we’re excited to announce the formation of GitHub Japan G.K., a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc. Our new office in Tokyo is our first official office…