Locking Conversations
Starting today, you can lock the conversation on an issue or a pull request. If you're a collaborator on a repository, click the lock in the sidebar of an issue…
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Patchwork Night UK Edition
We're happy to announce a new Patchwork hack night at the beautiful ustwo studio in London. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…
Hello World Guide
We just shipped our latest GitHub Guide: Hello-World. The "Hello World" project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming and now there is one just for GitHub. Hello repositories and…
Follow up to the investigation results
Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm…
Task lists in all markdown documents
Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…
Write line notes from your phone
We love using GitHub to write notes on specific lines in a diff — now it's super easy to do from any smartphone! Just bring up your favorite pull request…
Collaborating with Lists
At GitHub, we use lists for collaborating on software development, because lists are a simple and powerful tool for collaborating on anything. That's why we're introducing better visualization of list…
Patchwork Night
Next Thursday, March 27th, we're hosting another Patchwork night at GitHub HQ! Patchwork nights are hands-on learning Git and GitHub. Patchwork night is great for people new to Git and…
Timezone-aware contribution graphs
Today we've made your contribution graphs timezone-aware. GitHub is used everywhere and we want to reflect that in our features. If you happen to work from Japan, Australia or Ulan…
Rendered Prose Diffs
Today we are making it easier to review and collaborate on prose documents. Commits and pull requests including prose files now feature source and rendered views. Click the "rendered" button…
Diffable, more customizable maps
We're excited to announce two improvements to mapping on GitHub today: diffs and feature-level customizations. Visualizing changes over time We added the ability to visualize geospatial data to GitHub last…
Redesigned Conversations
Today we're excited to ship redesigned conversations on GitHub. Here's an example: More meaningful conversations Scanning and working with all the content available in conversations—replies, CI status, commits, code review…
Introducing Patchwork
We're happy to announce a new hacknight at our San Francisco headquarters: Patchwork. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. We'd love…
The Ghost of Issues Past
The end of the year is fast approaching, and this is a good time to review open issues from long ago. A great way to find older issues and pull…
Denver Tea House Drinkup
The Denver Hubbers would like to invite you to GitHub's first tea-based drinkup at iN-TEA in downtown Littleton. If you've never been to this place, it's a tea drinker's best…
GitHub Enterprise 11.10.320 Release
We've been working hard over the last few months, and are happy to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. It includes some exciting new Enterprise-specific features, as well as…
Keep Your Email Private
Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining cloaked in secrecy: Today we're :ship:ing the ability to make your email address private! Until…
Choosing an Open Source License
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…
GitHub Flow in the Browser
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…
Data Challenge II Results
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…
Task Lists in Gist
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…