The latest blogs from GitHub

We’ll be holding a GitHub Drinkup on Tuesday October 19th at 20:00 at Botequim Informal Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. Come have a beer and get some GitHub stickers! (Thanks…

GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you’re attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…

We’re getting back into the swing of meetups and would love it if you would join us this Thursday, October 14th at Thee Parkside. Its supposed to be a beautiful…

We’d like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for…

In our quest to make GitHub Jobs a great place for job seekers and employers we’re rolling out a new feature: Company Spotlights. What are they? Short interviews with awesome…

Update: Uploads have been deprecated A couple of weeks ago, downloads on GitHub were everywhere — we had the Download Source buttons, the Downloads tab, and, some clicks away, perhaps…

The Ruby and Rails European Conference is being held on October 21-22nd at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. Also, Corey Haines is putting on another Code Retreat on the 23rd.…

GitHub’s very own Eston Bond designed some awesome business cards. And yes, that’s an embossed octocat.

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…

While you’re waiting for the long anticipated MergeButton™, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few bits of documentation we have for pull requests. If you have any…

As the last stop on my four-country, three-conference international tour I’m coming to Belfast! The festivities will start Saturday, September 18th at 19:00 at Duke of York. So, come by…

I’m in Moscow for the @mail.ru Tech Forum and I’ll be holding a casual GitHub Drinkup at Sally O’Brien’s starting at 21:00. So, come by and meet me (Tom Preston-Werner).…

It’s that time again: the 2010 Git User Survey is here! All questions are optional, but every answer you give helps make git even more awesome. The survey will run…

Update: Done! If you notice any issues, file a support issue with the user/repo path. No data on our end was deleted, so we can restore any lost data. Update:…

Join Tom, Kyle, Scott and PJ at the Guinness Gravity Bar this Saturday from 20:00. There will be a bunch of people there for the FunConf after party, so make…

A few weeks back twitter removed basic auth support and as a result many of you haven’t been receiving twitter notifications for changes to your repositories. We’ve taken the the…

While Twitter may see traffic spikes during Apple events, we see quite the opposite:

GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You’ve used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we’re taking it to…

Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabs Read the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub. Rumor has it we’ll be seeing more from Mozilla…

Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you’re interested…