The latest blogs from GitHub

Building and testing GitHub Pages sites on your computer just got a whole lot easier with the release of the GitHub Pages Gem. Running Jekyll (the engine that powers GitHub…

Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining cloaked in secrecy: Today we’re 🚢ing the ability to make your email address private! Until…

Join @sroberts, @benbalter and @nakajima tomorrow night at Con Murphy’s for some alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on GitHub. They’ll be around for FOSSCON, but you don’t need to attend the…

Back in June we shipped support for viewing geographic data to GitHub.com repositories in GeoJSON & TopoJSON formats, which was awesome for open data sets and collaborative projects. We didn’t…

Join us Wednesday, July 31st for Code Bass 3! Come prepared to dance and have a good time. Music will be provided by GitHub’s DJs @newmerator, @defunkt, @atmos, @technoweenie, @thedaniel,…

Humans have enjoyed our ✨ new code search for a while, and today we’re ready to share that joy with the machines. 🔍 With the new code search API, we’ve…

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…

We have a couple of great new features and improvements to the OAuth flow to announce! First off, application developers can now add full text descriptions and custom images to…

Now that you can delete files directly on GitHub we’ve reached a very exciting milestone—the entire GitHub Flow™ is now possible using nothing but a web browser. What is GitHub…

Every month we open our doors to the tech community and invite somewhere around 50 people to attend a Passion Projects talk here at GitHub HQ. We’ve grown to love…

Join us this Thursday, July 11th, for a drinkup at Novela SF. 🍻 ✨ The Facts: Where? Novela SF – 662 Mission Street When? Thursday, July 11th from 8:30pm to…

You’ve been able to sort, search, and filter your stars for a few months now, and today you can easily browse everyone else’s stars, too. Most of the view is…

@jonmagic and @kdaigle are in Minneapolis this week to welcome @jaw6 to our team so we want to buy you a drink! 🍻 🍸 🍷 We’ll be at Kieran’s Irish…

About a year and a half ago we announced Improved Subversion Client Support – an improvement to the original service that provided better write access, partial checkouts, and access to…

Join @nuclearsandwich, @imbriaco, @shayfrendt, and me this coming Thursday at Tyler’s Taproom in Raleigh. Speak easy and join us in the back room for 🍻 on GitHub. The Facts: Tyler’s…

Join us Thursday, July 11th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with typography phenom and friend of the web Jessica Hische. Jessica is known for her…

You know all those files you’ve been creating, editing, moving, and renaming? Well, you’ll be glad to know that you can now remove them using the web-based interface too! Simply…

Last month Sara Chipps joined us at GitHub HQ for the 4th installment of our talk series Passion Projects. She gave an incredible talk about past projects, the developer community…

Today, we’re happy to announce an all-new look for the History tab in GitHub for Mac: This new design has a far more efficient way of viewing your repository’s history…

Today, we’re excited to announce Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users. Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond…

In April we announced the second annual GitHub data challenge. Since last year, GitHub’s public timeline data on Google BigQuery has grown by over 80 million events, including 3.8 million…