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I pushed the new Organization API documentation today. You can now access and modify Organization and Team information for your repositories. The Org API managed to test the limits of…

It seems like way too often I run into someone who’s been using GitHub for a long time but has just learned about one of our long-time features like fork…

I’m going to be in the DC area this weekend for Git training in Reston, VA through our friends at Jumpstart Lab, so I thought it would be a good…

Do you write code in your free time, for fun? Ever thought about doing it to save lives? Random Hacks of Kindness is a global hackathon on December 4 and…

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Octocat Wednesday? Probably not because I just made that up. Lucky for you we’re also making up the prices around here…

Looking for awesome developers? Good news! GitHub Jobs and The Changelog have teamed up to showcase your job listings on The Changelog’s popular podcast. Just check “Advertise this listing on…

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant – you can’t link to it from another program because…

It’s Cyber Monday and we’ve decided to do something special. For today only you can get 25% off any orders you make at The GitHub Shop! Sale ends Tuesday morning…

This December 14th we’ll be kicking off the first in a series of all-day online Git training sessions. The series will be taught by our partner Matthew McCullough of Ambient…

libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few…

I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…

If you have little or no experience on the command line, and no experience with Git, this might be the ebook for you: Getting Good With Git. From command line…

We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…

A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…

This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We’ve been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…

Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…

A few months ago I contacted one of my favorite local San Francisco artists, Sirron Norris, to see if he would create a custom piece for us featuring the Octocat,…

Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…

Here at GitHub we take our t-shirts seriously. So far we’ve produced the world famous “fork you” shirt, and the sold-out limited edition “all your rebase are belong to us”…

A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user’s HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…

I’d like to welcome Basho, the makers of Riak, to GitHub. Mark Phillips posted to the Riak mailing list that they have started developing Riak and their other projects primarily…