
Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines
Building software should be safe for everyone. The GitHub community is made up of millions of developers around the world, ranging from the new developer who created their first “Hello…
Building software should be safe for everyone. The GitHub community is made up of millions of developers around the world, ranging from the new developer who created their first “Hello…
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.
Community Partners are helping us build a diverse, inclusive environment at GitHub Universe. We select partners based on several criteria but the three main questions we ask ourselves when reaching…
A new release of GitHub Enterprise is now available with improvements for developers and administrators alike. With GitHub Enterprise 2.7, we’re introducing GPG signature verification — a new way for…
Last year, we wrote up our 2014 Transparency Report, the first report of its kind we’ve been able to do. It’s important to continue to update our community on the…
Every day, thousands of people are having conversations on GitHub around code, design, bugs, and new ideas. Sometimes there are complex and nuanced points to be made, but other times…
At GitHub we place an emphasis on stability, availability, and performance. A large component of ensuring we excel in these areas is deploying services on bare-metal hardware. This allows us…
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…
The comparison graph is the centerpiece of GitHub Desktop. It both drives the interaction with your branch and shows you the effects of your changes relative to a base branch.…
Like most online services, GitHub occasionally receives legal requests relating to user accounts and content, such as subpoenas or takedown notices. You may wonder how often we receive such requests…
While making your source code available in a public GitHub repository is awesome, it’s important to be sure you don’t accidentally commit your passwords, secrets, or anything else that other…
It’s a new year and we couldn’t think of a better way to start it off than with a new release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve included a number of highly-requested…
Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…
Today we’re happy to share some shiny visual updates to GitHub for Windows. You’ll notice some big layout changes, as well as many small improvements throughout. The result is a…
Now that you can delete files directly on GitHub we’ve reached a very exciting milestone—the entire GitHub Flow™ is now possible using nothing but a web browser. What is GitHub…
In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…
GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…
We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve been working hard to bring you the most recent features from GitHub.com, and we’re shipping this version with our…
Last night we shipped some friendlier edit and delete actions on your comments. Previously the actions would appear on hover at the top right of the comment box. The goal…
git rebase –interactive –onto edition-41 Lots of projects this week folks, keep them coming! Like always I’m more than welcome to consider user submissions to Rebase. Let me know about…
This is the second of many themed Rebases to come…our first was the book edition. In related news, the column has also been going on for over a year now!…
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