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…
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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…
Apple open-sources Swift on GitHub
Swift, Apple's powerful new programming language, is now open source on GitHub. Developers can submit bug fixes and enhancements, and help bring the language to new platforms. Open Source has…
A new look for repositories
Repositories on GitHub are about to get a brand new look. The new design improves navigation and simplifies page layout, all while improving the code and performance under the hood.…
Git Concurrency in GitHub Desktop
Careful use of concurrency is particularly important when writing responsive desktop applications. Typically, complex operations are executed on background threads. This results in an app that remains responsive to user…
Managing large files with Git LFS
We recently announced that Git Large File Storage, our open source project for managing large assets with Git, had reached a 1.0 milestone and would be available to all repositories…
GitHub Enterprise 2.4 is now available
GitHub Enterprise is the on-premises version of GitHub, which you can deploy and manage in your own, secure environment. The GitHub Enterprise 2.4 release offers users and administrators greater control…
GitHub Enterprise security best practices
We want to free up your administrator's time by providing a tool that requires little maintenance and great out-of-the-box security. By following a few simple steps, GitHub Enterprise can be…
Runnable Documentation: Code for Humans
On GitHub Enterprise we've moved our release process to using what we like to call "Runnable Documentation": a step-by-step series of instructions that can be run by any person without…
Git 2.6, including flexible fsck and improved status
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.6.0. Here's our take on its most useful new features: git fsck flexibility If you're tired of having git fsck remind…
Teachers, manage your courses with Classroom for GitHub
Classroom for GitHub is available now, making it easier than ever to teach with GitHub. Thousands of teachers use GitHub in their courses every day. They distribute starter repositories, give…
Counting Objects
The Systems Team at GitHub works to solve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks at the lowest levels of our infrastructure. Over the past two years we've undertaken a major project…
Automating code deployment with GitHub and Azure
There are many cloud services that support automated code deployment from GitHub. In this post, we're going to be taking a look at connecting a GitHub repository to a Microsoft…
Protected branches and required status checks
It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how to undo…
GitHub Desktop is now available
The new GitHub Desktop is now available. It's a fast, easy way to contribute to projects from OS X and Windows. Whether you're new to GitHub or a seasoned user,…
Git 2.5, including multiple worktrees and triangular workflows
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.5. Here's our take on its most useful new features. git worktree: one Git repository with multiple working trees It's not…
Benchmarking GitHub Enterprise
The release of GitHub Enterprise 2.0 brought more than just new features and support for deployment on Amazon Web Services. It also included a rework of our virtual machine architecture…
GitHub Extension for Visual Studio is open source
Last April we released the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, which lets you work on GitHub repositories in Visual Studio 2015. To celebrate Microsoft's final release of Visual Studio 2015,…
Greater control over forks of your private repositories
Previously, if you removed collaborator permissions from someone contributing to a private repository on your personal account, that person would retain their fork (if they had created one). Today, we're…
Scripts to Rule Them All
At GitHub we have a lot of software running our product and company. We also have a lot of potential contributing members. Being able to get from git clone to…