An easier way to create repositories
Today we're rolling out a new and improved flow for creating repositories on GitHub. To start off, you'll find a new create repository button in your header. The new create…
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OAuth Application Enhancements
We just rolled out some cool changes to how you manage OAuth applications. First up is a newly-polished Applications settings section for both developers (application owners) and users (application users).…
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation
At 8:49am Pacific Time this morning a GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his public key to the rails organization.…
Settings Refresh
Today we pushed a redesigned settings page that will make it easier to find and edit settings for your personal account as well as any organizations you own. The major…
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.…
Fight Breast Cancer in Style
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year GitHub is offering a Pinktocat t-shirt to help the cause. All proceeds of this fabulous limited edition shirt will be donated…
Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone
1/9/2017: This post isn't up to date. GitHub Issues for iPhone is no longer supported GitHub Issues has gone mobile. You can download it from the App Store today! NOTE:…
Repo Transfers
We've just opened up access to a feature we've been brewing for some time now... transferring repositories between accounts! While we've actually had this capability for a few months now,…
New Users, Repos, and Orgs API
Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…
libgit2: a Git Linkable Library
One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant - you can't link to it from another program because…
Basho moves Riak to GitHub
I'd like to welcome Basho, the makers of Riak, to GitHub. Mark Phillips posted to the Riak mailing list that they have started developing Riak and their other projects primarily…
Hibernate on GitHub
We'd like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for…
Pull Requests 2.0
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You've used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we're taking it to…
Easily Filter Notifications by Repository
We added a special header to all outgoing repository and direct message notifications that should make it much easier to filter emails: Direct messages get a List-ID of user.github.com, while…
Mono & OpenStack on GitHub
Following our one millionth repository, we'd like to welcome a couple new notable faces around GitHub. The first is the Mono project. Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's…
DB Maintenance Today @ 18:00 PST
We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) at 18:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while this takes place, but all data…
How we deploy new features
There's been some recent discussion about rolling out new features. Ross at Flickr talked about using flags and flippers. Forrst mentioned their use of user buckets. The nice thing about…
GitHub in the Government
Are you part of a US city, state, or federal government organization that uses GitHub for your source hosting? Do you belong to a government-oriented non-profit that uses GitHub? Do…