Organizations can now block abusive users
Community is one of the most important aspects of open source, but sometimes a few bad actors can ruin the experience for the group. To help address the problem, organization…
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Patchwork Philadelphia
Philadelphia friends, we hope you can join us for a Patchwork on April 12 at Pipeline Philly. If you're local or in town for Philly Emerging Tech, we'd love to…
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…
GitHub Satellite sessions preview
GitHub Satellite is the first-ever international event in the GitHub Universe series, and it's happening May 11, 2016, in Amsterdam. More than 500 developers, team leads, and open source contributors…
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…
Saved replies
We know from community feedback and open source projects (like @notwaldorf’s Chrome extension) that replying with the same response to Issues and Pull requests over and over can be tedious.…
Meet Sean Marcia, founder of Ruby for Good
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. If you know Sean Marcia, chances are that it’s through Ruby for Good,…
Patchwork Madison
We're happy to be hosting a Patchwork hack night in Madison, Wisconsin, and we hope you're able to come. If you're a beginner to Git and GitHub, or want to…
Patchwork Portland
Portland friends, we hope you'll join us for a Patchwork hack night on March 29, that will be co-hosted with our friends at TaborSpace. If you're a beginner to Git…
More code review tools
Effective code review catches bugs before they’re deployed, improves code consistency, and helps educate new developers. We’re adding new features to make code review on GitHub faster and more flexible.…
Patchwork El Paso
We're excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on March 18, that will be co-hosted with our friends at University of Texas, El Paso. If you're a high school or…
Issue references and @mentions for GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop on both Windows and Mac now provides suggestions when mentioning team members, referencing Issues, and adding more :tada: to your commit messages and Pull Requests. Just as you…
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…
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…
January 28th Incident Report
Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…
GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0
GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it's now…
Improved commenting with Markdown
You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you've always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…
Patchwork Brussels
Are you going to be in town for FOSDEM? We'd love if you joined us at our next Patchwork hack night. It will be on January 29, 2016 and will…
Patchwork London
We hope you'll join us for our next Patchwork hack night on January 25, at the London School of Economics in London. GitHubbers @johndbritton, @tracicakes, and @amosie, as well as…
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…