Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that "rewrite history" such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
During the last year alone, over 56 million developers created more than 60 million new repos and made more than 1.9 billion contributions on GitHub. These developers are building the…
GitHub Universe is almost here. For more on what to expect from this year’s stream, we sat down with virtual host, Brian Douglas, for a quick Q&A on GitHub Actions,…
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net -- impacting users…
The GitHub Archive Program announces its latest milestone: storing collections of the most popular and depended upon open source repositories in beautiful art cases featuring 3D-printed and AI-generated artwork in significant libraries around the world.
November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…
Outubro é um mês especial no mundo do desenvolvimento de software. Há 7 anos a Hacktoberfest — um festival que celebra a comunidade open source — incentiva pessoas desenvolvedoras a…
The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been…
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…
We're here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for October 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There's everything from world-changing tech,…
Last week we launched code scanning out of beta and have since announced integrations with static analysis and developer security training solutions. By expanding our GitHub security ecosystem, developers can…
Earlier this month we were thrilled to welcome the OpenJDK Community to GitHub. The communities migration effort, codenamed Project ‘Skara’, brought JDK 16 main-line development into GitHub. The JDK project is at the…
We recently shipped support for the origin-bound draft standard for security codes delivered via SMS. This standard ensures security codes are entered in a phishing-resistant manner. It accomplishes this by binding an SMS with…
It’s now even easier to review logs from your GitHub Actions workflow runs. We’ve introduced several improvements to make the experience more performant, precise, and pleasing to use. Why these…