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At GitHub, we recognize that running a great business over the long term requires a measure of "work/life balance" – and that includes recognizing that developers and other knowledge workers…
We're releasing a formal specification of the syntax for GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its corresponding reference implementation.
There's a new way to reinforce your team's code reviews. Now you can specify who in your organization can dismiss reviews on a protected branch. In the last year, we've…
Today we're announcing the next major release of Git LFS: v2.0.0. The official release notes have the complete list of all the new features, performance improvements, and more. In the…
Today we're introducing a new Business offering that brings SAML single sign-on, automated provisioning and deprovisioning, 24/5 support, and guaranteed uptime to GitHub.com. With direct access to our developer community…
Professor David J. Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University, is dedicated to offering his students a robust learning experience. This post outlines how…
Google provides some guidance on how to effectively run a Google Summer of Code project but it's not tailored specifically to GitHub's workflow. To set clear expectations for mentors and…
With the continuous shipping nature at GitHub, it's easy for the most well-intentioned feature to accidentally become the vector of abuse and harassment. The Community & Safety engineering team focuses…
GitHub data is available for public analysis using Google BigQuery, and we’d like to help you take it for a spin. If you'd like to find out more about what…
Last year we shared some details on GitHub's CSP journey. A journey was a good way to describe it, as our usage of Content Security Policy (CSP) significantly changed from…
Historically, we have used Redis in two ways at GitHub: We used it as an LRU cache to conveniently store the results of expensive computations over data originally persisted in…
We hope you will join us and our friends at linux.conf.au as we host a Patchwork on the isle of Tasmania, in the city of Hobart. The event is open…
The complete agenda for Git Merge 2017 is now live. Check it out. Learn how companies like Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Autodesk, Yubico, MIT, Atlassian, and the Software Freedom Conservancy are…
You can now resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub right from your pull requests, saving you a trip to the command line and helping your team merge pull requests faster.…
GitHub uses MySQL to store its metadata: Issues, Pull Requests, comments, organizations, notifications and so forth. While git repository data does not need MySQL to exist and persist, GitHub's service…
We serve a lot of diffs here at GitHub. Because it is computationally expensive to generate and display a diff, we've traditionally had to apply some very conservative limits on…
GitKraken is now part of the Student Developer Pack. Students can manage Git projects in a faster, more user-friendly way with GitKraken's Git GUI for Windows, Mac, and Linux. GitKraken…
Today is Veteran’s Day here in the United States, or Remembrance Day in many places around the world, when we recognize those who have served in the military. Today many…
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds power and versatility directly into your workflow with Reviews for more streamlined code review and discussion, Projects to bring development-centric project management into GitHub, and Jupyter…
If you'll be attending The Next Web NYC on November 16, we'd love to have you join us for our Patchwork round table session. The session is open to all…
On November 17, we're teaming up with our friends at Ingressive who are hosting a GitHub Patchwork and Meetup/Q&A in Lagos, Nigeria after day one of their High Growth Africa…