The latest blogs from GitHub

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…

Like most online services, GitHub occasionally receives legal requests relating to user accounts and content, such as subpoenas or takedown notices. You may wonder how often we receive such requests…

DotNetFringe is on next week in Portland. @haacked, @ammeep and @shiftkey and other local GitHubbers will be around, and we’d love to hang out with attendees and locals after the…

Distributed version control systems like Git have enabled new and powerful workflows, but they haven’t always been practical for versioning large files. We’re excited to announce Git Large File Storage…

Next week, we’ll converge in Paris to celebrate 10 years of Git. Thank you for helping us raise funds that benefit the Software Freedom Conservancy. We look forward to hanging…

Patchwork Wellington We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, that will be co-hosted with our friends at BizDojo at their Project: Blank Canvas space…

Our next Patchwork hack night will be on Monday, April 13, 2015, and co-hosted with our friends at Notman House in Montréal, QC. 🎉 If you’ll be in town for…

Do you remember your first open source project? This shirt with an early GitHub motto will take you back to that first commit. Get them in the GitHub Shop

We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com’s history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination…

@danishkhan & @newmerator are at RubyConf Philippines! We’d love to share a 🍺 or 🍻 with those of you that will be in the area. Please come by Ocean Bar…

我（@muan）和 @johndbritton 這幾個禮拜正在台灣做教育推廣，希望能夠藉這次機會和更多喜歡 GitHub 的人碰面交流。我們決定在這週四（3/26）晚間辦一場見面會，歡迎大家一起來和我們聊聊天。參加資格沒有任何限制，有興趣的大家都很歡迎來唷！ 活動細節： 3/26（四）晚間七點半 All Day Roasting Company 台北市松山區延壽街 329 號（近捷運南京三民站） @johndbritton and I (@muan) are in Taipei to do a bunch of campus visits, and we’d…

Come join me (@kasima) for some 🍻 and 🍹 on GitHub, Tuesday March 24th at 19:00! I’ll be there to hang out with our local GitHub users in Manila. I’m…

Branches are an essential part of collaborating using GitHub Flow. And it’s now easier than ever to browse a repository’s branches on your phone. Using the new dropdown, you can…

This Saturday, March 21st, 2015 at 12PM UTC we will be upgrading a large portion of our database infrastructure in order to further ensure a fast and reliable GitHub experience.…

Web notifications on GitHub keep you apprised of the latest activity from the repositories you watch within your browser. With the addition of mobile web notifications, now you can stay…

We’ve been displaying 3D, map, and tabular files for a while now. We’re now happy to add PDF documents to the list! Simply browse to a PDF document and we’ll…

GitHub’s Game Off is back, and this year it’s a little different! The Challenge Take an existing game or game jam entry on GitHub, fork it and do something awesome…

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…

Join @jatoben and me (@elizabethn) for a meetup in awesome Kalamazoo on March 14! If you’ll be in town for Kalamazoo X, or just in the area anyway, we’d love…

GitHub has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code, a program where students receive a stipend to contribute to open source projects. If you…

Just like our Mac client, you can now use GitHub for Windows to submit pull requests to GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, right from your desktop. We didn’t forget forks, either!…