The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re happy to announce Octokit, our new lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for the GitHub API. Today, we’re making our first two libraries available. octokit/octokit.rb Octokit.rb (formerly pengwynn/octokit) has been…

Now that we’re all done Thundering Up for the season, it’s time for OKC’s first drinkup! Let’s grab a beer and some sweet potato fries at McNellie’s next Saturday (the…

In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…

It’s finally spring in Berlin! We’re in town for DevOps Days Berlin and would love to buy you a 🍺. Please join @lstoll, @adelcambre, @johndbritton, and myself (@jnewland) at Kunztschule…

In today’s release of GitHub for Mac, you can now easily install Git for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate packages. And whenever we update…

It’s a fact of life – sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…

You can now create your own personal API tokens for use in scripts and on the command line. Be careful, these tokens are like passwords so you should guard them…

It’s been possible to close an issue from a commit for quite a while, but some issues take more work than a single commit to close. That’s why you can…

GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…

Git Merge 2013 is in full effect here in Berlin and we will end the conference tomorrow with a Drinkup at Golgatha Biergarten! Come out and let us buy you…

Millions of people around the world use GitHub every day to build software together, but the GitHub Way™ isn’t limited to code. We are humbled to see that the White…

At GitHub, we’re big fans of traditional computer science education, and we’re also happy to see some alternative models emerging for training new programmers. There are the Massively Open Online…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. Along with a variety of general improvements and adjustments, this new release brings the following features from GitHub.com: Relative links…

Today we’re happy to announce two big additions to our API: File CRUD and Repository Statistics. File CRUD The repository contents API has allowed reading files for a while. Now…

1/9/2018: Whoops! This post is out of date. For more information on searching repositories on GitHub, check out our documentation. Today we are allowing you to search your own public…

@nakajima and I will be in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, and we’re shooting for the ever-elusive back-to-back-to-back drinkup. GitHub will be buying your favorite alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks for…

Join us on May 9th for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series. We’ll be welcoming Timoni West to GitHub HQ for drinks and a chat about all…

Last week we explained how we greatly reduced the rendering time of our web views by switching our escaping routines from Ruby to C. This speed-up was two-fold: the C…

We’re sponsoring ScotlandJS in Edinburgh this week, so we thought we’d throw a drinkup. Whether you’re attending the conference, or are part of the local tech community, come on down…

Beginning today, you can head over to your favorite repository’s Branches page and see the build status for the HEAD of each branch. Better yet, the page updates automatically whenever…

Both GitHub and Gist offer ways to view “raw” versions of user content. Instead of viewing files in the visual context of the website, the user can see the actual…