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…
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Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.
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…
Oklahoma City Drinkup
Now that we’re all done Thundering Up for the season, it’s time for OKC’s first drinkup! Let’s grab a beer and some sweet potato fries at McNellie’s next Saturday (the…
Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode
In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…
Another Drinkup in Berlin!
It’s finally spring in Berlin! We’re in town for DevOps Days Berlin and would love to buy you a 🍺. Please join @lstoll, @adelcambre, @johndbritton, and myself (@jnewland) at Kunztschule…
Repository redirects are here!
It’s a fact of life – sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…
Personal API tokens
You can now create your own personal API tokens for use in scripts and on the command line. Be careful, these tokens are like passwords so you should guard them…
Closing Issues via Pull Requests
It’s been possible to close an issue from a commit for quite a while, but some issues take more work than a single commit to close. That’s why you can…
Jekyll Turns 1.0
GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…
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