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We’ll be performing some scheduled maintenance on a fileserver pair this Wednesday (April 25th, 2012) at 9PM PDT. A small percentage of repositories will be placed in maintenance mode for…

Today we’re rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. To start off, you’ll find a new create repository button in your header. The new create…

Smart HTTP is The Future™ A while back, we launched Smart HTTP support for GitHub; this transport for pushing changes to GitHub has a number of benefits over the SSH-based…

Fabian “ryg” Giesen (@rygorous), one of the coders of the legendary demoscene group farbrausch, has open-sourced on GitHub a repository with some of the group’s work from 2001 to 2011.…

We’ve just released GitHub for Mac 1.2.5 and it comes with a new update panel that helps you see what we’re shipping with each release. It also contains a handy…

GitHub turns four this month!! To celebrate, we’re going back to where it all started. That’s right, we’re going to Zeke’s Diamond Bar, the place where GitHub became more than…

Notch is at it again, and we couldn’t be more excited. You may have heard of Minecraft, the award-winning game Notch released a few years ago that has recently marked…

The beers in Portland are second only to the amazing summers. Since it’s not quite summer yet, and since a summerup would just sound weird, we’ve decided to host a…

Spring is in the air. At GitHub we’re busting out the mops and hosing down the site. Today we’re removing two features. They’ve been gathering dust for a while and…

Next Thursday, April 12th, GitHub will be sponsoring a drinkup in my hometown of Ventura, CA at the Anacapa Brewing Company at 8pm. Come join us for some free beer…

Ever pushed a new project to GitHub and wished you had the time or talent to make a beautiful page for it? Stop wishing. We’re proud to present the new…

API v3 has been in place for nearly a year. We’ve seen a large increase in the amount of API consumers and have ambitious future plans for it. However, at…

Nodeload 2 has been rocking since August, so I thought I’d give a quick report of its performance. Nodeload is the system responsible for dynamically building and delivering your Git…

Ben Bleikamp and myself will be in Columbia, SC for POSSCON and hosting a Drinkup while in town. This Wednesday night, we’ll be buying drinks at the Liberty Tap Room.…

Ljubljana, Slovenia Drinkup We are having a great Git class in Ljubljana and want to celebrate with the Slovenian developer community with a double GitHub drinkup tonight to make it…