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We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.

A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor.

We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center.  These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer…

Today’s Changelog brings auto-hiding columns based on board filters, item numbers in table layout, updated enterprise project visibility settings, and issue transfer updates! 🙈 Auto-hide columns with board filters You…

This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git’s internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git repositories that match related database sharding techniques.

Now your team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time writing code.

We’re examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distributed database and looks into its synchronization techniques, specifically ‘git fetch’ and ‘git push’.

Previously, we announced a change to how <num> parameters work for autolink references, switching from numeric to alphanumeric IDs. We heard from a number of customers who still need numeric…

The GitHub Packages npm registry now runs on a new architecture, unlocking great new capabilities: Publishing packages at organization level with GitHub Packages Previously, npm packages published to GitHub packages…

Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your history spelunking skills by learning how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them.

The default code scanning query suites include checks for the most important security vulnerabilities for each supported language, so that any potential problems can be surfaced to developers before they…

This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it’s enabled in your repositories.

This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.

This month’s featured open source project, Open Sauced, connects contributors and maintainers through analytical insights.

GitHub Desktop 3.0.6 brings a slew of community contributions! As an open source project, we are always so grateful to our contributors who make Desktop better for themselves and others.…

OpenID Connect (OIDC) support in GitHub Actions is now enhanced to support secure cloud deployments at scale. Org & repo admins can use the new OIDC API support to: enable…

In May we shipped a setting for including the pull request title in the default commit message presented to users when squash merging a pull request. We just shipped more…

With this update, organization admins can manage billing settings for codespaces that are created for organization controlled repositories. Admins can choose to opt-in to the organization covering the bill for…

We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company!

Dependabot alerts users can now add an optional comment when dismissing an alert. These comments (maximum 280 characters) are viewable in the alert timeline and via the new dismissComment field…

This feature is available to repositories enrolled in the Pull Request Merge Queue beta. A new webhook event and GitHub Actions workflow trigger (merge_group) makes it easier to run required…