The latest blogs from GitHub

As we expand our infrastructure, we are making changes to the IP addresses currently in use. If you are explicitly whitelisting GitHub in your firewall rules, please make sure that…

Have you ever looked at a commit page on GitHub and wondered what branch the commit was in? We did too. If the commit is not on the default branch,…

Celebrating a big feature release with a distributed team can be difficult awesome. We typically deploy dozens of times per day and ship new features regularly. We celebrate shipping several…

GitHub for Mac has had support for OS X 10.8’s Notification Center for quite some time now. Today, we’re making our Notification Center feature even more useful by tying them…

Join us on April 4th for our second Passion Projects talk with Firefox Dev Heather Arthur. Heather is an engineer at Mozilla in San Francisco, where she works on Firefox…

Almost exactly two years ago we had a blast hosting our first drinkup here in Brussels. This Friday we’re excited to welcome you again and all RubyMotion #inspect attendees at…

We’re in Boston for EclipseCon at the beginning of the week and Monitorama at the end of the week. Join the entire GitHub Ops team — and a few of…

For several months now, the jQuery team has been fulfilling one of their major goals to open-source all of the content and design of all jQuery web sites on GitHub.…

RubyConf Uruguay takes place this weekend, and with all the amazing developers, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after-party! Join @bhuga, @danishkhan, @foca, @jakeboxer, @johndbritton, @newmerator, @nrrrdcore, @pakwit,…

Earlier today a routine system email was incorrectly sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making…

At GitHub, we know that even great developers sometimes make mistakes. So, in GitHub for Windows, we’ve added Undo support for Discards, Commits, Rollbacks, and Merges: If you’ve accidentally committed…

Starting today, you can use commit messages to close issues in other repositories. Now you can include “fixes user/repo#45” in your commit message, and it will close the referenced issue,…

Starting today, you can move and rename files within your repositories on GitHub. Renaming a file You’ll notice that editing a file now lets you enter a new name for…

Pull Request live updates just became a little more awesome. We now automatically update the commits tab, and let you know when the diff tab is out out of date…

Join us Thursday evening for another SF Drinkup. After our first Passion Projects talk, we’re heading over to Alchemist for some 🍻 and to talk all things GitHub. The Facts:…

We’re always looking for opportunities to better support women in technology. We sponsor women-focused meetups and events all over the world. This year, we’d like to try something a little…

GRDevDay is taking place this Saturday, and with so many amazing developers together, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after party. Join @bkeepers and the rest of the…

ConFoo is happening this week in Montreal, and when @ben is travelling, he likes to drink with awesome people. Whether you’re in town for the conference, are a native Montrealite,…

Join @kneath and me this Thursday at Steel Cactus in Shadyside. Yinz invited. The Facts: Steel Cactus Authentic Mexican Restaurante & Cantina – 5505 Walnut St. Thursday, February 28 at…

We get a lot of spam on Gist and we have a decent system for removing it from public view. Unfortunately, from time to time, something nasty will sneak through.…

If you’re in town for Big Ruby or just call DFW home, come hang out at Willhoites in Historic Downtown Grapevine™ and tell us all about the cool stuff you’re…