New community tools
We’re introducing two new tools to help maintain and grow open source communities. Recommended community standards As an open source project grows beyond code, it can be difficult to maintain…
We’re introducing two new tools to help maintain and grow open source communities. Recommended community standards As an open source project grows beyond code, it can be difficult to maintain…
Feedback is essential to the learning process. Input from an expert at the right time can make all the difference in a software project. In past programming classes, Professor John…
Join us for a Patchwork in beautiful Guadalajara, Mexico! This evening workshop is open to Git and GitHub beginners, as well as mentors who want to help others learn. We’ll…
The latest GitHub Enterprise release is here with updates for developers and admins alike. Customizable workflows and advanced project tracking help your team do more at every step of the…
The latest GitHub Enterprise release is here with updates for developers and admins alike. Customizable workflows and advanced project tracking help your team do more at every step of the…
When issue or pull request discussions get heated, sometimes a solution can’t be reached until everyone has had time to cool down. Now, with interaction limits, maintainers can temporarily limit…
After several years of providing in-person and remote training, the GitHub Training Team is bringing their classroom experience to your laptop. The team is hosting live, virtual private classes designed…
Today we’re announcing the next major release of Git LFS: v2.1.0, including new features, performance improvements, and more. New features Status subcommand With Git LFS 2.1.0, get a more comprehensive…
We’re celebrating almost a decade of code, collaboration, and octocats! Over the last nine years, our community has grown to almost 20 million users, 57 million repositories, and 100 million…
Not every team manages their work on GitHub in the same way. Now you can disable repository and organization-wide Projects if you’re not using them. Users with admin privileges on…
At GitHub, we recognize that running a great business over the long term requires a measure of “work/life balance” – and that includes recognizing that developers and other knowledge workers…
We’re releasing a formal specification of the syntax for GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its corresponding reference implementation.
There’s a new way to reinforce your team’s code reviews. Now you can specify who in your organization can dismiss reviews on a protected branch. In the last year, we’ve…
Today we’re announcing the next major release of Git LFS: v2.0.0. The official release notes have the complete list of all the new features, performance improvements, and more. In the…
Today we’re introducing a new Business offering that brings SAML single sign-on, automated provisioning and deprovisioning, 24/5 support, and guaranteed uptime to GitHub.com. With direct access to our developer community…
Professor David J. Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University, is dedicated to offering his students a robust learning experience. This post outlines how…
Google provides some guidance on how to effectively run a Google Summer of Code project but it’s not tailored specifically to GitHub’s workflow. To set clear expectations for mentors and…
With the continuous shipping nature at GitHub, it’s easy for the most well-intentioned feature to accidentally become the vector of abuse and harassment. The Community & Safety engineering team focuses…
GitHub data is available for public analysis using Google BigQuery, and we’d like to help you take it for a spin. If you’d like to find out more about what…
Last year we shared some details on GitHub’s CSP journey. A journey was a good way to describe it, as our usage of Content Security Policy (CSP) significantly changed from…
Historically, we have used Redis in two ways at GitHub: We used it as an LRU cache to conveniently store the results of expensive computations over data originally persisted in…
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