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…
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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…
Issues Dashboard
The new Issues Dashboard. Now you can get all your issues on all your projects. Similar to the Pull Request Dashboard, the Issues Dashboard consolidates all of your issues in…
How GitHub Develops
Scott Chacon (@schacon) has written a fantastic post regarding how we develop GitHub using GitHub itself. Do yourself a favor and head over to his blog: http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html If there's only…
Announcing GitHub for Mac
Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you've pushed your code to GitHub.…
API v3: 190 methods to build on
The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We…
Block the Bullies
GitHub has always been about collaboration: we want to make it easy for you to work with other people to build great software. Whether that's a co-worker sitting next to…
Forking with the Edit Button
You've been able to edit files in repositories you own on GitHub for years. But today, we've improved the workflow for this functionality. You can now edit files in repositories…
The Merge Button
With Pull Requests 2.0, it became easier than ever to review code and accept patches. We use pull requests extensively at GitHub, and I love receiving pull requests on my…
GitHub Reflog v1.4.20
Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. This week, we welcome Python's…
Rolling out the Redcarpet
Here at GitHub, we love Markdown. We use it everywhere: to render the wikis, issues, pull requests, and all user-generated comments. We even encourage developers to write their READMEs in…