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Git’s 10-year birthday celebrations notwithstanding, the Git community has been busy preparing another major new release of the Git command-line utility. Release 2.4.0 is weighted towards cleanups, bug fixes, and…
Last month, we challenged you to fork a game repository and do something awesome with it based on our Tron-inspired theme, “the game has changed“. Below are the submissions. They’re…
Open source simply isn’t open source without a proper license. Unless you’ve explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you’ve only showed others your code; you…
The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam is returning next week! We’ve had some great games submitted in previous years and can’t wait to see what you come…
The Git developers have just released a major new version of the Git command-line utility, Git 2.3.0. As usual, this release contains many improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes. Full…
We announced our second annual game jam, the GitHub Game Off II, back in October. Today, we’re revealing the winners and giving you the chance to play and fork these…
We ran our very first game jam last year and had so much fun, we decided to throw another one! The Challenge You have the entire month of November to…
It’s easy to get caught up in code. Sharing your code isn’t everything, though: it’s also important to tell people how they can use that code. Choosing an open source…
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