The latest blogs from GitHub

From time to time we get requests asking us to add support for new highlighting lexers, recognize additional extensions as certain languages, or ignore a directory from a repo’s stats…

Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you’ve pushed your code to GitHub.…

The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We…

We have an extra ticket for Kiwi PyCon! The conference is in the lovely Wellington, NZ in late August. If you’re interested in going, just fork this gist and answer…

We deployed a big change to GitHub Services this week. The code is now clearer, more consistent, and better tested (thanks to Faraday). We also recently added support for Redmine,…

As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we’ve revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we’ve…

We’ve just opened up access to a feature we’ve been brewing for some time now… transferring repositories between accounts! While we’ve actually had this capability for a few months now,…

Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…

It is that time once again! Next Monday, June 13, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or…

The site will be down for maintenance tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 8, 2011) at 20:00 PST. We’ll be restarting a couple redis servers to increase limits. Total downtime shouldn’t exceed…

It’s almost the second Thursday of the month, you know what that means… another drinkup. All of you visiting for WWDC should come and experience a drinkup on our home…

The statute of limitations have finally expired for a few nefarious deeds committed by GitHub employees, so our crack team of lawyers admitted we could finally build a long-overdue shiny…

A few of us (@tmm1, @atmos, @sr, @defunkt) are in Amsterdam this week. We will be at the amsterdam.rb meetup at 17:00, followed by drinks at De Bekeerde Suster around…

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk, a tech analyst firm, gave a presentation this morning entitled Survival of the Forges wherein he compared the four main software forges: Sourceforge, Google Code, GitHub,…

CodeConf 2011 was a massive success, but it was just the start. Today we’re proud to present our second conference, focused on the future of Python: PyCodeConf 2011 Tickets and…

GitHub has always been about collaboration: we want to make it easy for you to work with other people to build great software. Whether that’s a co-worker sitting next to…

A few of us (@tmm1, @sr, @atmos) are in Berlin this weekend for EuRuKo and we’d like to invite our Berlin users out for drinks. Sunday evening after the conference…

A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with the guys from Founder.LY. We talked about GitHub, strategies for early stage startups, and a bit of my background.…

As part of the Mylyn connector announcement last week a new stand-alone Java library was released for accessing GitHub API v3. Below is a 5 line example showing how to…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Thanks to the awesome work…

We’ll be out in Baltimore next week, RailsConf’in around town, catchin’ some rays by the harbor, seein’ the sights. Did you know Baltimore.org says “Baltimore-it’s not so much a place…