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I suppose we should do something with this warehouse full of Fork You shirts we have. Starting to look like an episode of Hoarders up in here. Hey, you want…

Update [January 1, 2017]: Our pricing plans have changed. For information on our latest plans, check out our pricing page. When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the…

Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…

If you have ever forked a Gist just so you can remember which one it is, now you can just star it. There is now a ‘star’ button on each…

Update: The new fileserver is online and working now. Following up on last week’s fileserver problems, we will be swapping in the new server tonight (Wednesday, June 23rd) at 22:00…

It just occurred to me that we never mentioned Twitter’s been open sourcing code like crazy on GitHub over the past few months. They’ve put together a really great Twitter…

UPDATE: The upgrade ran without problems. We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Monday, June 21, 2010) at 22:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…

As you may know, on thursday, 2010-06-10, we had a machine in one of our fileserver pairs fail. This caused an outage for all users on that fileserver, and corrupted…

For all you Android developers out there, we now will automatically detect when you upload an Android package (.apk) file and will give you a QR code page link on…

If you’ve ever wished you could have push notifications sent to your iPhone when someone commits to your repository — today’s your lucky day. We recently added support for Notifo…

Summer is almost here and its time for another meetup! In what is perhaps an overly optimistic act, we’re going to do another meetup outdoors at Irish Bank. It might…

Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.

In the talks and trainings that I do, I’ve been wanting a shorter, simpler reference site for people learning Git. The Pro Git book, being a full book, sometimes intimidates…

We’re always keeping an ear to the ground about GitHub and one of things that comes up a fair amount is improving our feature visibility. In other words, we offer…