Introducing unlimited private repositories
We couldn’t be more excited to announce that all of our paid plans on GitHub.com now include unlimited private repositories. GitHub will always be free for public and open source…
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Import repositories with large files
You can now import repositories from Subversion, Mercurial, and TFS that include files larger than 100 MB using the GitHub Importer. This new ability is powered by Git LFS. When…
GitHub Enterprise 2.6 is here with faster, more approachable workflows
A new release of GitHub Enterprise is now available—and includes features requested by developers across the GitHub community. With GitHub Enterprise 2.6, we’re introducing tools and updates that will provide…
Expanded webhook events
Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…
Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally
A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…
GitHub’s CSP journey
We shipped subresource integrity a few months back to reduce the risk of a compromised CDN serving malicious JavaScript. That is a big win, but does not address related content…
From the OctoTales video series: advancing cancer research through open source
There are no shortage of open source projects making an impact on our world, and we’ve been especially excited to see an increase in collaboration across the healthcare community. A…
Introducing DGit
Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we've built DGit, a new…
Squash your commits
Git’s flexibility allows you to shape your workflow however you like. The organization of your git history is just one of the choices to make, but up until now the…
Protected Branches Improvements
Over 100,000 people push to protected branches nearly 300,000 times every week. We’ve been listening to how we can make protected branches even better and we’re happy to introduce two…
Git 2.8 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.8.0, featuring a variety of features, bugfixes, and other improvements from over 70 contributors. Here are some of the most useful…
Revamping GitHub’s Subversion Bridge
One of GitHub's niche features is the ability to access a Git repository on GitHub using Subversion clients. Last year we re-architected a large portion of the Subversion bridge to work with our changing infrastructure.
Upload files to your repositories
You’ll soon be able to skip the command line and upload files directly to your repositories without having to leave the browser. Repository uploads will be rolling out over the…
Issue and Pull Request templates
It's hard to solve a problem when important details are missing. Now project maintainers can add templates for Issues and Pull Requests to projects, helping contributors share the right details…
Migrate your code with the GitHub Importer
If you have source code in Subversion, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server, or another Git repository, you can now quickly and easily move that code to GitHub with the GitHub Importer.…
GitHub Enterprise 2.5 is now available
We are excited to announce the release of GitHub Enterprise 2.5. With this release, we’re introducing features and updates that will help development teams build software at scale with a…
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we're releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Working with submodules
Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…
New Year, new Git release
If your New Year's resolution was to update to a new version of Git, we've got good news. The Git community has just released Git 2.7.0, and we'd like to…
How the Services team uses GitHub
If you're writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team's primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…
Move Fast and Fix Things
Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…