Commit Status API
Today, we shipped an API for third party services to attach statuses to commits. We created this API to allow services to color the discussion on pull requests. For example,…
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Deploying at GitHub
Deploying is a big part of the lives of most GitHub employees. We don't have a release manager and there are no set weekly deploys. Developers and designers are responsible…
SF Drinkup #39
All those Pull Requests got you feeling parched? Quench your thirst with us this Thursday at Thirsty Bear! Join us this Thursday evening for drinks, great conversations, and more. The…
Notifications & Stars
Today, we’re releasing a new version of our notifications system and changing the way you watch repositories on GitHub. You’ll find the new notifications indicator next to the GitHub logo…
Notification Email Improvements
Reading notifications on github.com is greatly improved thanks to the numerous enhancements shipped out earlier today. We're excited to also announce a brand new email backend with support for rich…
Game Bytes #1
Welcome to the first edition of Game Bytes, where we highlight some of the latest and greatest game development-related repositories, success stories, and other game-related tidbits. I talked with David…
Eclipse Git Plugin 2.0 Released
The Git and GitHub plugins for Eclipse have leveled up today with version 2.0 released as part of Eclipse Juno. We are proud to also be launching eclipse.github.com to highlight…
Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion
Are you part of a software development team that's recently moved to GitHub? Where some team members are excited to use git for source control but you're more comfortable with…
Auto Updating Comments
Pull Requests and Issues now automatically update as new comments are posted. You no longer need to repeatedly refresh while you're waiting for that pull request to finally be accepted.…
Say Hello to Octicons
Some of the icons on our site have been the same since we launched 4 years ago. With metaphors that just barely fit what we needed them to, we felt…
Introducing Team Mentions
For a while now, you have been able to @mention a user when discussing issues, pull requests, and commits. Now you can use the same convention to mention a Team…
Ten Years of farbrausch Productions on GitHub
Fabian "ryg" Giesen (@rygorous), one of the coders of the legendary demoscene group farbrausch, has open-sourced on GitHub a repository with some of the group's work from 2001 to 2011.…
Spring Cleaning
Spring is in the air. At GitHub we're busting out the mops and hosing down the site. Today we're removing two features. They've been gathering dust for a while and…
PHP source now available on GitHub
The PHP Core source code has migrated to git and is available on GitHub. Last fall the PHP core team voted to pick a distributed version control system and git…
GitHub Reflog v2.2.4
Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the semi-regular chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz. For previous editions, check out The Reflog…
@mention autocompletion
@mentions are a great way to pull someone into a issue or pull request. Internally we use a /cc convention to call out people. A lot of our issues look…
More GitHub Office Hours and Welcome Classes
The free GitHub Office Hours and Intro To GitHub classes (launched here, and here) have been a great success as we've piloted them over the last few months. One instance…
Introducing GitHub Enterprise
Today we're launching GitHub Enterprise: a self-hosted GitHub for your company. Easy, Secure, and Powerful GitHub Enterprise has all the great stuff you've come to expect from GitHub: commit histories,…
GitHub Secrets
Over the years we've added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features. Let's talk about some of those…
All of the Hooks
Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…
Introducing Issue Mentions
With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned…