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Do you have a GitHub URL you’d like to shorten? Use Git.io! $ curl -i https://git.io -F “url=https://github.com/…” HTTP/1.1 201 Created Location: https://git.io/abc123 $ curl -i https://git.io/abc123 HTTP/1.1 302 Found…

It’s the second week of November and you know what that means: it’s time for another SF Drinkup. We’ll be at Aces Bar this Thursday. Stop in and have a…

The free GitHub Office Hours and Intro To GitHub classes (launched here, and here) have been a great success as we’ve piloted them over the last few months. One instance…

We’ve teamed up with the folks from American Express Mobile to host a drinkup at AnDevCon on Monday. Come have a drink with us at Knuckles Historical Sports Bar. Monday,…

GitHub is in Seoul, South Korea for the Xen Summit Asia and we want to drink with you. Please join us for free drinks on November 3 at 6:30pm in…

Today we’re launching GitHub Enterprise: a self-hosted GitHub for your company. Easy, Secure, and Powerful GitHub Enterprise has all the great stuff you’ve come to expect from GitHub: commit histories,…

Ok Richmond, its round two for you. This time we’ll be splitting the duty with our friends and yours, Heroku. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying…

Today we’re announcing two new API features: Event Timeline access, and OAuth Authorizations. We’ve also tweaked the way mime types work in preparation for the finalization of API v3. Event…

For many developers getting started with Git on Windows, one of the confusing features of Git is that the default editor for commit messages is Vim. While Vim is a…

For the past year or so we’ve been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he…

Chicago is the beneficiary of another GitHub Drinkup this Thursday, October 27, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. We’re holding it at the Celtic Crossings tl;dr Summary: Thursday, October 27 7:00pm to…

The first annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament was held yesterday in San Francisco at the Mission Rec Center. 17 teams joined us for 4 hours of ball throwing fun, in the…

Over the years we’ve added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features. Let’s talk about some of those…

About a year and a half ago we announced SVN client support, which could be used for limited access to GitHub repositories from Subversion clients. Today we’re launching new, improved…

Yesterday Zend announced full support for Git and GitHub in the next version of Zend Studio (9.0). If you’re a PHP developer, chances are you know about Zend — and…

Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…

We are battling for charity next week at the First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Invitational. If you’re in the Bay Area and think your company has the balls, sign up here.…

AppHarbor, an awesome Git-aware hosting platform for .NET web projects, has announced support for integrating GitHub projects into their build system. Set up correctly, this means that pushing to GitHub…

GitHub is in Tokyo, Japan and we would love to invite you for free drinks on Friday October 14. The event will be held at the Ruby Room Tokyo (東京)…

Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last. Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page! You can also use the context button to switch between organizations…

¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we’ve never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…