Wikis: now with more love
Documenting the code you share on GitHub can contribute tremendously to the success of your project. When your documentation is easy to access and read, people can better understand how…
Documenting the code you share on GitHub can contribute tremendously to the success of your project. When your documentation is easy to access and read, people can better understand how…
What an incredible and productive year! A few days ago the 10 millionth repository was created on GitHub.com, just in time for the new year. The first million repositories were…
Today we’re proud to announce a redesigned repository experience focused on your content, built for everyday use. We’ll be slowly rolling out the ability to opt-in to this new design…
Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a…
Today we’re happy to release Contributions: a new addition to profile pages that lets you see what everyone has been up to on GitHub. Popular Repositories Show off the fancy…
You can already see all the repositories you’ve starred at github.com/stars, but today your Stars page just got a whole lot better. Search Looking for a repository you starred? Search…
In this edition of The RefLog, we talk with Bryan Helmkamp. A Rubyist, GitHub User #19, and creator of Code Climate. Matthew McCullough sat down with him to talk about…
Some of the icons on our site have been the same since we launched 4 years ago. With metaphors that just barely fit what we needed them to, we felt…
For the last few months a few of us here at GitHub have been working on a new homepage for the Git project. I designed the original site years ago…
Update: We’ve discontinued this app. We’re proud to announce that Gaug.es for Android is now available in the Android Market! The app provides a quick overview of your traffic, top…
Today we pushed a redesigned feature that highlights language statistics on repository home pages, allowing you to quickly see what languages a repository contains. It’s a great way to get…
¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we’ve never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…
I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…
Issue management: the final frontier. Almost two years ago to the day, GitHub launched an issue tracker. Some people love it, some people hate it — but let’s not focus…
Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for serving static assets. We’ve also rolled out some general asset delivery optimizations. Depending on how far…
This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We’ve been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…
Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…
Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…
A few weeks back twitter removed basic auth support and as a result many of you haven’t been receiving twitter notifications for changes to your repositories. We’ve taken the the…
Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you’re interested…
Git’s branching model is one of it’s best features. Branches are cheap, fast and extremely flexible. They’re great for developing features, maintaining old releases, or just plain experimentation. If you…
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