Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub
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.…
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Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
Orchestrator at GitHub
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…
Relative links for GitHub pages
You've been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have…
Git 2.11 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.11.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here's our look at some of the most interesting new features: Abbreviated…
GitHub Extension now supports Visual Studio 2017 RC
The GitHub Extension for Visual Studio now supports Visual Studio 2017 RC, including support for cloning repositories directly from the Visual Studio Start Page. We've also improved our startup time…
What’s new in GitHub Pages with Jekyll 3.3
GitHub Pages has upgraded to Jekyll 3.3.0, a release with some nice quality-of-life features. First, Jekyll 3.3 introduces two new convenience filters, relative_url and absolute_url. They provide an easy way…
Game Off Theme Announcement
We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we're announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…
Introducing Projects for Organizations
You can now use GitHub Projects at the Organization level. All users in your Organization will have access to its Projects, so you and your team can plan and manage…
octocatalog-diff: GitHub’s Puppet development and testing tool
Today we are announcing the open source release of octocatalog-diff: GitHub's Puppet development and testing tool. GitHub uses Puppet to configure the infrastructure that powers GitHub.com, comprised of hundreds of…
Rebase and merge pull requests
The merge button on pull requests supports two great workflows with merge commits and commit squashing. Now you can use the merge button to rebase and merge your changes, too.…
Mission Report: GitHub Universe
On September 14 in San Francisco, more than 1,500 developers helped us kick off GitHub Universe and share stories about open source, workplace best practices, and how the GitHub Community…
A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
Today I welcomed more than 1,500 people to our second annual Universe conference in San Francisco, an event designed to celebrate the people building the future of software. It’s an…
The GitHub GraphQL API
GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We've evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and consistent interface.
Improving collaboration with forks
If you've ever wanted to make minor changes before merging a pull request, now you can. When a user opens a pull request from a fork, they'll be given a…
Building resilience in Spokes
Spokes is the replication system for the file servers where we store over 38 million Git repositories and over 36 million gists.It keeps at least three copies of every repository…
Git 2.10 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.10.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here's our look at some of the most interesting new features: Progress…
Publish Your Project Documentation with GitHub Pages
You might be familiar with how GitHub Pages helps you share your work with the world or maybe you have attended a class that helped you build your first GitHub…
Building your first Atom plugin
Authored by GitHub Campus Expert @NickTikhonov. This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. We'll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a…
Simpler GitHub Pages publishing
We're making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy
At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth…