The latest blogs from GitHub

Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…

Task Lists are a great way to organize and break down Issues and Pull Requests into small, feasible tasks. Naturally, we want to use Task Lists to track our personal…

GitHub is visiting Portland – the original Portland up in Maine – and we’re hosting a drinkup. @TwP, @kdaigle, and @vinbarnes will be your hosts for the evening at Novare…

We just made working with milestones simpler and more explicit. Now when you want to close or open a milestone, you can do so from the milestone listing. Milestones will…

Starting today, you will see warnings if you push large files to your GitHub repository. Git is not well suited to large binary files, and we have some recommendations about…

Are you in Richmond, VA? Are you ready to hack? The RVA Hackathon is on Saturday June 22nd. Come join us at Richmond’s most up and coming brewery, Hardywood, for…

Today we’re proud to announce a redesigned repository experience focused on your content, built for everyday use. We’ll be slowly rolling out the ability to opt-in to this new design…

@ymendel and I are hitting up Tel Aviv for DevconTLV on Thursday and we would love you to join us that night for a few cold beverages – courtesy of…

Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a…

Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they’ve…

Join us this Thursday, June 13th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series. We’ll be welcoming Sara Chipps to GitHub HQ for drinks and a chat about…

We’re happy to announce Octokit, our new lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for the GitHub API. Today, we’re making our first two libraries available. octokit/octokit.rb Octokit.rb (formerly pengwynn/octokit) has been…

Now that we’re all done Thundering Up for the season, it’s time for OKC’s first drinkup! Let’s grab a beer and some sweet potato fries at McNellie’s next Saturday (the…

In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…

It’s finally spring in Berlin! We’re in town for DevOps Days Berlin and would love to buy you a 🍺. Please join @lstoll, @adelcambre, @johndbritton, and myself (@jnewland) at Kunztschule…

In today’s release of GitHub for Mac, you can now easily install Git for use on the command line, without needing to download any separate packages. And whenever we update…

It’s a fact of life – sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…

You can now create your own personal API tokens for use in scripts and on the command line. Be careful, these tokens are like passwords so you should guard them…

It’s been possible to close an issue from a commit for quite a while, but some issues take more work than a single commit to close. That’s why you can…

GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…

Git Merge 2013 is in full effect here in Berlin and we will end the conference tomorrow with a Drinkup at Golgatha Biergarten! Come out and let us buy you…