The latest blogs from GitHub

Congratulations to Alastair! He won our Frozen Rails ticket. Alastair is a Ruby developer that hails from Trondheim, Norway. He has contributed to Rails and has a collection of open…

Tomorrow, August 16th, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough. If you or your teammates need to get up to speed on Git…

Ace is a code editor written in JavaScript. It powers Cloud9 IDE and, as of today, file editing on GitHub. If you’re using a recent version of Safari, Chrome, or…

UPDATE: We’re moving the drinkup to Mister Lew’s Win Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium. Sorry about the short notice, but it’s not too far away. That special time of…

1/9/2017: This post isn’t up to date. GitHub Issues for iPhone is no longer supported GitHub Issues has gone mobile. You can download it from the App Store today! NOTE:…

Thanks to the people behind Frozen Rails, we have another conference pass to give away. This time, you’ll spend two days in the beautiful Helsinki. Same rules as before, fork…

Nodeload, the first GitHub node.js project, turned 1 year old recently. Nodeload is what prepares git repository contents into zip and tarballs. As the service has grown over the last…

Today we are happy to announce the opening of ticket sales for PyCodeConf, our follow up to the great CodeConf event we hosted earlier this year. Ticket sales are open…

Some of us are heading to Portland next week for Community Leadership Summit and OSCON, so we’re having a drinkup Sunday night. The facts: Rontoms, 600 East Burnside, Portland OR,…

A few of us are going to be in Boston this weekend for Monospace 2011 which means it’s time for another drinkup! Details: 8pm Saturday night July 23, 2011 Flat…

The first of our tickets for Magma Rails goes to Fernando. Signing up in our first year, Fernando has been a GitHub member longer than the others who entered and…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. This week, we’re extending a warm…

For this month’s Drinkup, we’re doing it in the neighborhood… our new neighborhood. As some of you may know, we just moved to GitHub HQ 2.0, as in last weekend.…

It’s time for another conference ticket give-away. This time it’s for Magma Rails, a Ruby/Rails conference in Mexico. To celebrate their second year, we have 2 tickets to give away.…

A big congratulations goes out to Jonathon! He’ll be traveling across the ditch to Wellington for a few handles, some Maori roast and of course Python. Thank you to all…

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…