The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub Flavored Markdown is getting a little Task List flavoring. Today, we’re shipping an enhancement to our Markdown pipeline to support task lists. Task lists are lists with items marked…

Now you can create and delete branches from GitHub.com. Create a branch In your repository’s branch selector, just start typing a new branch name. We’ll give you the option to…

Next week we are hosting a very special party at Public Works in San Francisco. We are bringing the whole company to San Francisco for our January summit – come…

We recently started letting you tidy up your Pull Requests. What happens when someone deletes a branch that is still needed? Starting today, you can restore any head branch of…

Today we’re happy to release Contributions: a new addition to profile pages that lets you see what everyone has been up to on GitHub. Popular Repositories Show off the fancy…

If you live in Las Vegas or you’re going to be in town for CES, join me at The Chandelier on January 10th for drinks on GitHub. When This coming…

Los Angeles is a big place, and everyone is really spread out. When you plan an LA event, you have to try to balance the needs of the eastsiders and…

There is lots going on in the Motor City! On January 9th Detroit is welcoming MongoDB Detroit (registration is free) to the city and we want to celebrate great code…

GitHub Pages, the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects, just got an upgrade. We are now using Jekyll 0.12.0, which contains several new features…

A few months ago, GitHub HQ 2.0 got a MakerBot Replicator 2. GitHubbers started printing almost immediately due to the easy setup but having to leave a laptop connected was…

Copying long lines of text and shas to your clipboard has been just a click away for a few years now. Today we’re putting a new face on that click-to-copy…

On Saturday, December 22nd we had a significant outage and we want to take the time to explain what happened. This was one of the worst outages in the history…

As our infrastructure continues to grow and evolve, it’s sometimes necessary to perform system maintenance that may cause downtime. We have a number of projects queued up over the coming…

I am continually blown away by the staggering amount of work happening on GitHub. Every day, our users commit code, open and close issues, and make plans for their software…

I’m taking a short break from travel for the holidays to spend some quality time at home in NYC. Join me this Thursday at Zablozki’s in Williamsburg for a very…

Last month, we challenged you to create a web-based game loosely built around the theme of forking, branching, cloning, pushing, and/or pulling for our very first game jam, the GitHub…

I’m in Tromsø for a few days and realized we’ve never thrown a Drinkup in the Arctic Circle. Let’s fix that! Come on by Blå Rock Café for an evening…

Today we’re adding autocompletion for Issues and Pull Requests, similar to the @mention and emoji autocompletion you already know and love. Type # to see Issue and Pull Request suggestions,…

Does your accountant or tax collector require specific details on your receipts? You can now add information like your legal company name, billing address, and tax ID number to your…

Today, we’re launching a refreshed homepage that reflects the core idea of GitHub: It’s better to work together than to work alone. Thank you to our awesome community for making…

In addition to providing downloadable source code archives, GitHub previously allowed you to upload files (separate from the versioned files) in the repository, and make it available for download in…