The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub uses MySQL to store its metadata: Issues, Pull Requests, comments, organizations, notifications and so forth. While git repository data does not need MySQL to exist and persist, GitHub’s service…

You can now request a review explicitly from collaborators, making it easier to specify who you’d like to review your pull request. You can also see a list of people…

We serve a lot of diffs here at GitHub. Because it is computationally expensive to generate and display a diff, we’ve traditionally had to apply some very conservative limits on…

You’ve been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have…

As part of the design of GLB, we set out to solve a few of the common issues found when using HAProxy at scale.

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.11.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features: Abbreviated…

Tickets for Git Merge 2017 are now on sale 🎉 Git Merge is the pre-eminent Git-focused conference: a full day offering technical talks and user case studies, plus a full…

It’s time to cozy up with the all new Octoplush collectable-available now in the GitHub Shop. Share the Octoplush with friends and family. Just don’t feed these octocats. They’re already…

The GitHub Extension for Visual Studio now supports Visual Studio 2017 RC, including support for cloning repositories directly from the Visual Studio Start Page. We’ve also improved our startup time…

Go ahead, color outside the lines with the GitHub Activity Book starring our very own Mona the Octocat! Now available in the GitHub Shop.

GitKraken is now part of the Student Developer Pack. Students can manage Git projects in a faster, more user-friendly way with GitKraken’s Git GUI for Windows, Mac, and Linux. GitKraken…

Today is Veteran’s Day here in the United States, or Remembrance Day in many places around the world, when we recognize those who have served in the military. Today many…

The GitHub team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent on November 28, and we’d love to meet you there. Why? GitHub works alongside AWS to ensure your code is produced…

GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds power and versatility directly into your workflow with Reviews for more streamlined code review and discussion, Projects to bring development-centric project management into GitHub, and Jupyter…

If you’ll be attending The Next Web NYC on November 16, we’d love to have you join us for our Patchwork round table session. The session is open to all…

On November 17, we’re teaming up with our friends at Ingressive who are hosting a GitHub Patchwork and Meetup/Q&A in Lagos, Nigeria after day one of their High Growth Africa…

GitHub Pages has upgraded to Jekyll 3.3.0, a release with some nice quality-of-life features. First, Jekyll 3.3 introduces two new convenience filters, relative_url and absolute_url. They provide an easy way…

We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…

We’re kicking off 2017 with Git Merge, February 2-3 in Brussels. Join us for a full day of technical talks and user case studies, plus a day of pre-conference workshops…

We’re hosting this Patchwork with our friends at Condé Nast in Austin. The event is open to all beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who would like to help…

On Thursday, October 20th, a bug in GitHub’s system exposed a small amount of user data via Git pulls and clones. In total, 156 private repositories of GitHub.com users were…