The latest blogs from GitHub

The new GitHub Desktop is now available. It’s a fast, easy way to contribute to projects from OS X and Windows. Whether you’re new to GitHub or a seasoned user,…

Whether you are partaking in the beauty of the outdoors or working on your favorite project, enjoy the sleeveless comfort of our Surftocat tank top, now available in the GitHub…

Patchwork Boulder Our next Patchwork hack night will be on Tuesday, August 18, and will be hosted at our office in Boulder, CO. 🌄 🎉 GitHubbers @elizabethn, @rubyist, @technoweenie, @mastahyeti,…

GitHub Enterprise 2.3 offers users and administrators greater control over their instance—and their workflows. From expanded monitoring to a hi-fidelity migration tool, our latest release includes features, APIs, and ongoing…

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.5. Here’s our take on its most useful new features. git worktree: one Git repository with multiple working trees It’s not…

The release of GitHub Enterprise 2.0 brought more than just new features and support for deployment on Amazon Web Services. It also included a rework of our virtual machine architecture…

You’ve been able to view and diff geospatial data on GitHub for a while, but now, in addition to being able to collaborate on the GeoJSON files you upload to…

Update: TODO Group will not be continuing work on the open code of conduct. See the followup post for more information. We are proud to be working with the TODO…

The area above the merge button now contains more information, making it easier to see if your proposed changes are ready to go or need more work. Each month, 119,000…

Last April we released the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, which lets you work on GitHub repositories in Visual Studio 2015. To celebrate Microsoft’s final release of Visual Studio 2015,…

We are excited to announce GitHub’s partnership with the White House and the Department of Housing and Urban Development that will equip low-income homes with affordable and free broadband wireless…

Add mass to your laptop and charge your accessories with this sticker pack made of Atoms and Electrons, now available in the GitHub Shop. Keep an ion them, they’ll be…

Previously, if you removed collaborator permissions from someone contributing to a private repository on your personal account, that person would retain their fork (if they had created one). Today, we’re…

If you would like a sneak peek at a new way to contribute to GitHub from your desktop, sign up for our First Look program. Opting in will give you…

At GitHub we have a lot of software running our product and company. We also have a lot of potential contributing members. Being able to get from git clone to…

The GitHub File Finder is now available on your mobile device. Just click the “Jump to file” link on any repository.

GitHub is pleased to announce that version 1.0 of the Atom text editor is now available from atom.io. Read the full behind the scenes story over on the Atom blog.…

Graphs, and pencils, and locks…Oh my! Now you can collect themed Octicon buttons with the four new button packs offered in the GitHub Shop.

We’re hosting Hackcon III at our San Francisco office on July 18th and 19th. Hackcon is the place to be for student hackathon organizers. The event is run by our…

A few days ago we announced that “GitHub is growing in Europe”. This growth is supported by GitHub teams based in UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The team in…

CodeConf is next week, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring the open source community together to exchange ideas and have some fun in Nashville. There are a few…