The latest blogs from GitHub

We’ll be at OSCON next week and you’re invited to join us on Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30pm for Pub Quiz Night at Spirit of 77 in Portland, OR, co-hosted…

Following the recent release of GitHub for Windows 2.0, we’ve been working hard to bring our two desktop apps closer together. We’ve just shipped a significant new update to GitHub…

GitHub is now accepting PayPal, in addition to credit cards, to pay for personal plans and organization accounts. We’ve been working closely with Braintree to deliver PayPal payments using their…

GitHub Enterprise releases are all about offering large companies more of GitHub to deploy in their own environments, and today’s release is no exception. We’ve added a number of features…

It’s time for another Patchwork night at GitHub HQ, next Thursday, July 10th! Patchwork nights are hands-on help sessions for people new to Git and GitHub. You’ll leave with a…

If you’re a fan of animated GIFs and GitHub, then you may have seen this one on the internet: At long last, you can now get your very own Octocat…

We’ve all merged bad pull requests and wanted to roll back the changes without having to rely on Git commands. Starting today, you can easily revert a pull request on…

Open source software development practices are growing all over Japan, and one company at the forefront of these efforts is GREE. Their mobile social gaming platform connects 230 million users…

Branches are an essential part of collaborating using GitHub Flow. They’ve always been cheap and easy to create within a GitHub repository, and today we’re making branch management more straightforward.…

We’re pleased to announce that we will be hosting a meetup at GitHub HQ to celebrate LGBT advocates in tech on Thursday June 26, during SF Pride Week. We hope…

Two years ago we started using Octicons—our icon font—on GitHub. We use them in many of our sites and include them in Atom. Now we are making them available for…

Today, we’re shipping a design update to Gist to give it that same look and feel you’re used to on GitHub.com. Updates include: Redesigned conversations Redesigned revisions view Redesigned user…

GitHub is coming to Portsmouth (UK)! Come join @arfon at The White Swan on Tuesday, June 24th at 7:00pm and enjoy some of the finest cask ales, draught beers and…

A good number of Hubbers are descending on 🇬🇧 London for Enterprise Apps World and Patchwork. So we thought it would be the perfect time for a GitHub Meetup. Join…

Starting today, you can lock the conversation on an issue or a pull request. If you’re a collaborator on a repository, click the lock in the sidebar of an issue…

Two years ago we launched GitHub for Windows as the easiest way to use Git and GitHub on Windows. Today we’re shipping a major update that helps you focus more…

We’re happy to announce a new Patchwork hack night at the beautiful ustwo studio in London. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…

We’ve supported image viewing and diffing for quite some time now, but today we’re happy to announce that we’re adding PSD files to the images we support for this. Any…

Back in April I said we would share the new initiatives we’re launching to ensure GitHub is a welcoming and inclusive company. This work is long term and will remain…

A GitHub user group in Tokyo is organizing an event, GitHub Kaigi on June 1st, and a number of GitHubbers (@cobyism, @devinreams, @dice, @dsorkin, @jordanmccullough, @kansaichris, @nathansobo) will be in…

The most organized people know that finishing a task rarely involves just one step. That’s why we’re excited to announce nested task lists! For example: – [ ] Figure out…