The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub has always been about making open source software better, and today we’re launching TODO with a number of partners to help large organizations better support the open source community.…

GitHub is proudly sponsoring HACKMemphis this weekend. @jameswhite and I will be down visiting and would like to buy you a 🍻 or 🍸 and talk about whatever strikes you…

Our open and free Internet fuels some of the most incredible innovation in history. It provides new opportunities for billions of people to communicate and collaborate, contributes to economic growth…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Thursday, September 18, 2014, co-hosted with our friends at Dev Bootcamp NYC’s campus. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

Commits, compare views, and pull requests now highlight individual changed words instead of the entire changed section, making it easier for you to see exactly what’s been added or removed.…

Diffs now come in two flavors, unified and split. Switch between them on pull request, commit, and compare pages using the toggle in the top right of the page. The…

Wear our new GitHub Flow shirt and show off how easy it is to merge pull requests with high fashion. Check it out in the GitHub Shop.

At GitHub we say, “it’s not fully shipped until it’s fast.” We’ve talked before about some of the ways we keep our frontend experience speedy, but that’s only part of…

We’ve just released some major improvements to our organization audit logs. As an organization admin, you can now see a running list of events as they’re generated across your organization,…

You’ll now start seeing expanded file listings on GitHub that look like this: The grey text in the paths — in this case, java/com/netflix/ — means those three folders don’t…

Sometimes, you just want to grab someone’s attention when you’re finished with some cool code. That’s why we’ve added support for GitHub’s @mention feature inside GitHub for Windows. You can…

In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities…

So many of us here at GitHub have benefited from early exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that we’re always looking for ways to help young people develop a…

Our traffic graphs tab shows you a lot of information about who’s visiting your repository on the web. We’ve added a new graph to this tab, showing git clone activity.…

… and stickier than ever! Now in the GitHub Shop: sticker packs with never-before-seen Octocats! Share them with your friends, and bring your laptop one Octocat sticker closer to greatness.

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night at GitHub’s new Boulder office. No coding experience required! Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. We’d love for…

We’ve changed the process for adding new GitHub users to your organization. Starting today, users you add will be sent an email invitation. Once they accept this invitation, they’ll become…

We’ve upgraded GitHub Pages to support the latest version of Jekyll, the open source static site generator. Whether you’re a new user or a savvy veteran, here are a few…

We’ve rebuilt GitHub Issues to be smarter: search smarter, filter smarter, and manage your issues and pull requests smarter. If you want to see it in action, check out Bootstrap’s…

After we shipped the ability to view GeoJSON & TopoJSON, users have put tons of cool maps on GitHub, but sometimes you still need to see the underlying GeoJSON. Now…

GitHub’s annual data challenge is back, and we can’t wait to see what you’ll build this year, be it beautiful generative art or full blown, third-party activity dashboards. Check out…