New History Tab in GitHub for Mac
Today, we’re happy to announce an all-new look for the History tab in GitHub for Mac: This new design has a far more efficient way of viewing your repository’s history…
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Release Your Software
Today, we’re excited to announce Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users. Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond…
Data Challenge II Results
In April we announced the second annual GitHub data challenge. Since last year, GitHub’s public timeline data on Google BigQuery has grown by over 80 million events, including 3.8 million…
GeoJSON rendering improvements
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…
Task Lists in Gist
Task Lists are a great way to organize and break down Issues and Pull Requests into small, feasible tasks. Naturally, we want to use Task Lists to track our personal…
Portland Maine Drinkup
GitHub is visiting Portland – the original Portland up in Maine – and we’re hosting a drinkup. @TwP, @kdaigle, and @vinbarnes will be your hosts for the evening at Novare…
Simpler Milestone Workflow
We just made working with milestones simpler and more explicit. Now when you want to close or open a milestone, you can do so from the milestone listing. Milestones will…
New File Size Limits
Starting today, you will see warnings if you push large files to your GitHub repository. Git is not well suited to large binary files, and we have some recommendations about…
Richmond, VA Drinkup
Are you in Richmond, VA? Are you ready to hack? The RVA Hackathon is on Saturday June 22nd. Come join us at Richmond’s most up and coming brewery, Hardywood, for…
Repository Next
Today we’re proud to announce a redesigned repository experience focused on your content, built for everyday use. We’ll be slowly rolling out the ability to opt-in to this new design…
Tel Aviv Drinkup
@ymendel and I are hitting up Tel Aviv for DevconTLV on Thursday and we would love you to join us that night for a few cold beverages – courtesy of…
There’s a map for that
Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a…
Git Merge Berlin 2013
Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they’ve…
Passion Projects with Sara Chipps
Join us this Thursday, June 13th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series. We’ll be welcoming Sara Chipps to GitHub HQ for drinks and a chat about…
Introducing Octokit
We’re happy to announce Octokit, our new lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for the GitHub API. Today, we’re making our first two libraries available. octokit/octokit.rb Octokit.rb (formerly pengwynn/octokit) has been…
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