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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The GitHub File Finder is now available on your mobile device. Just click the “Jump to file” link on any repository.
You can now create deploy keys with read-only access. A deploy key is an SSH key that is stored on your server and grants access to a single GitHub repository.…
One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.
GitHub for Windows now makes it even easier to see everything local to your machine, whether it’s uncommitted changes or commits you haven’t synced yet. One of the things you’ll…
Earlier this spring, we upgraded our database cluster to MySQL 5.6. Along with many other improvements, 5.6 added some exciting new features to the performance schema. MySQL’s performance schema is…
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