Game Off Theme Announcement
We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…
We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…
You can now use GitHub Projects at the Organization level. All users in your Organization will have access to its Projects, so you and your team can plan and manage…
Today we are announcing the open source release of octocatalog-diff: GitHub’s Puppet development and testing tool. GitHub uses Puppet to configure the infrastructure that powers GitHub.com, comprised of hundreds of…
The merge button on pull requests supports two great workflows with merge commits and commit squashing. Now you can use the merge button to rebase and merge your changes, too.…
On September 14 in San Francisco, more than 1,500 developers helped us kick off GitHub Universe and share stories about open source, workplace best practices, and how the GitHub Community…
Today I welcomed more than 1,500 people to our second annual Universe conference in San Francisco, an event designed to celebrate the people building the future of software. It’s an…
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.
If you’ve ever wanted to make minor changes before merging a pull request, now you can. When a user opens a pull request from a fork, they’ll be given a…
Spokes is the replication system for the file servers where we store over 38 million Git repositories and over 36 million gists.It keeps at least three copies of every repository…
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.10.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features: Progress…
You might be familiar with how GitHub Pages helps you share your work with the world or maybe you have attended a class that helped you build your first GitHub…
Authored by GitHub Campus Expert @NickTikhonov. This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. We’ll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a…
We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…
At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth…
GitHub Pages will upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 on August 23rd. The upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 comes with over 100 improvements including the introduction of themes, meaning that soon, you’ll be…
You can now search for wiki pages from either the main search page, or within a repository. Quickly discover how to use the exec command of your Redis client, or…
Organization owners are able to reinstate members that have been removed from an organization. Reinstating a member will restore organization and team memberships, forks of private repositories, issue assignments, repository…
Data gives us insight into how people build software, and the activities of open source communities on GitHub represent one of the richest datasets ever created of people working together…
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…
At its core, open source is about collaboration. Whether it’s version control, licenses, or issue trackers—everything exists to support people working with each other. Open source embodies a model for…
You can now showcase the repositories that best represent your work on your GitHub profile. Using the “Pinned repositories” list, you can pin any public repository you have contributed to.…
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