The latest blogs from GitHub

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…

At GitHub we love using Gist to share code. Whether it’s a simple snippet or a full app, Gist is a great way to get your point across. And the…

The holiday season is upon us! While Jack Frost may not be nipping at our noses here in San Francisco, we can still enjoy a few drinks by a roaring…

I’m in town for a workshop at the University of Toronto. Come on by The Rhino for some beers (on us, of course!) and merriment as we prepare for the…

Update – Change in venue We have a few Cali based hubbers in the great city of London this week and we want to buy you a pint or three.…

Today we’re releasing a new system status API to serve up status info in a delicious JSON flavor.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Reducing words is one of our top priorities at GitHub HQ, so we’re releasing image attachments for issues today. Update: Oh,…

Today, we’re launching a completely redesigned homepage for GitHub Enterprise, the private, installable version of GitHub running on your servers. Beyond the visual changes, we’ve tightened up the copy to…

Starting today, you can create new files directly on GitHub in any of your repositories. You’ll now see a “New File” icon next to the breadcrumb whenever you’re viewing a…

We just launched a new status.github.com. Downtime is important Even if you’re shooting for five nines — 99.999% uptime — you’re still going to have to account for five minutes…

On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…

For the last stop of the YOW! circuit we’ll have four hubbers in Sydney this week. @barrbrain, @holman, @rodjek, and myself are organizing a drinkup. You should drop by. When…

At GitHub, we love to use Pull Requests all day, every day. The only trouble is that we end up with a lot of defunct branches after Pull Requests have…

@holman and I are in Brisbane for the second stop of YOW!. When This Monday, December 3 — tomorrow! — at 8:30pm. Where The Plough Inn Tavern at Building 29,…

The GitHub Game Off is coming to an end. There are almost 1337 forks and a ton of great looking games already. The judges can’t wait to dive in! We’ve…

If you’re recovering from the AWS re: Invent conference or are just looking to start your Friday night in Vegas off the right way, join @jdpace and @shayfrendt for drinks…

Ever wondered how to get emoji, syntax highlighting, custom linking, and markdown to play nice together? HTML::Pipeline is the answer.

Following the Denver Public Git Workshop, @matthewmccullough and I will be hosting a drinkup near the workshop venue in the Tech Center. All GitHub fans are welcome, whether you come…

Today we are announcing simplified syntax for adding comparison and range criteria to searches. Previously we relied on Solr-style syntax, so searching for items with more than 10 stars would…