The latest blogs from GitHub

To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…

Git’s flexibility allows you to shape your workflow however you like. The organization of your git history is just one of the choices to make, but up until now the…

Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…

GitHub Satellite is the first-ever international event in the GitHub Universe series, and it’s happening May 11, 2016, in Amsterdam. More than 500 developers, team leads, and open source contributors…

Git Merge kicks off in less than a week in New York City on April 5th—and tickets are already sold out! The conference will bring together Git contributors, source control…

Over 100,000 people push to protected branches nearly 300,000 times every week. We’ve been listening to how we can make protected branches even better and we’re happy to introduce two…

We know from community feedback and open source projects (like @notwaldorf’s Chrome extension) that replying with the same response to Issues and Pull requests over and over can be tedious.…

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. If you know Sean Marcia, chances are that it’s through Ruby for Good,…

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.8.0, featuring a variety of features, bugfixes, and other improvements from over 70 contributors. Here are some of the most useful…

We have reached an exciting milestone: one million people have launched some version of Atom in the last month. That’s three times the number of active users we had under…

We’re happy to be hosting a Patchwork hack night in Madison, Wisconsin, and we hope you’re able to come. If you’re a beginner to Git and GitHub, or want to…

At the heart of what makes GitHub great are the thousands of open source communities that build incredible things every day. The brand new GitHub Community Cast shines a light…

At Git Merge—a conference for the Git community—you’ll join developers who are committed to the future of Git. In addition to seeing an amazing lineup of speakers, attendees of all…

One of the most important elements of creating a strong community is shaping the new contributor experience. The on-boarding experience for new participants plays a huge role in how quickly…

Following up on the release of the Ruby Nanodegree program that we co-created with Udacity, we’ve extended our partnership to offer GitHub Student Developer Pack members one month of free…

Portland friends, we hope you’ll join us for a Patchwork hack night on March 29, that will be co-hosted with our friends at TaborSpace. If you’re a beginner to Git…

Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…

Effective code review catches bugs before they’re deployed, improves code consistency, and helps educate new developers. We’re adding new features to make code review on GitHub faster and more flexible.…

OSCON is headed to Austin this year and we’re bringing back the GitHub Open Source Alley. The alley features open source projects from across the community where they can chat…

CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. This year’s event will focus on systems engineering projects, practices, and programs in…

We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on March 18, that will be co-hosted with our friends at University of Texas, El Paso. If you’re a high school or…