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Last April we released the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, which lets you work on GitHub repositories in Visual Studio 2015. To celebrate Microsoft’s final release of Visual Studio 2015,…

Previously, if you removed collaborator permissions from someone contributing to a private repository on your personal account, that person would retain their fork (if they had created one). Today, we’re…

At GitHub we have a lot of software running our product and company. We also have a lot of potential contributing members. Being able to get from git clone to…

The GitHub File Finder is now available on your mobile device. Just click the “Jump to file” link on any repository.

You can now create deploy keys with read-only access. A deploy key is an SSH key that is stored on your server and grants access to a single GitHub repository.…

One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.

GitHub for Windows now makes it even easier to see everything local to your machine, whether it’s uncommitted changes or commits you haven’t synced yet. One of the things you’ll…

Earlier this spring, we upgraded our database cluster to MySQL 5.6. Along with many other improvements, 5.6 added some exciting new features to the performance schema. MySQL’s performance schema is…

Communicating ideas that combine code, data and visualizations can be hard, especially if you’re trying to collaborate in realtime with your colleagues. Whether you’re a researcher studying Wikipedia, an astronomer…

Last year, we exposed repository and organization metadata to help you showcase your open source efforts on GitHub Pages. We’re adding releases metadata to that list, allowing you to more…

Git’s 10-year birthday celebrations notwithstanding, the Git community has been busy preparing another major new release of the Git command-line utility. Release 2.4.0 is weighted towards cleanups, bug fixes, and…

Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…

Last month, we challenged you to fork a game repository and do something awesome with it based on our Tron-inspired theme, “the game has changed“. Below are the submissions. They’re…

Like most online services, GitHub occasionally receives legal requests relating to user accounts and content, such as subpoenas or takedown notices. You may wonder how often we receive such requests…

Distributed version control systems like Git have enabled new and powerful workflows, but they haven’t always been practical for versioning large files. We’re excited to announce Git Large File Storage…

Branches are an essential part of collaborating using GitHub Flow. And it’s now easier than ever to browse a repository’s branches on your phone. Using the new dropdown, you can…

Web notifications on GitHub keep you apprised of the latest activity from the repositories you watch within your browser. With the addition of mobile web notifications, now you can stay…

GitHub’s Game Off is back, and this year it’s a little different! The Challenge Take an existing game or game jam entry on GitHub, fork it and do something awesome…

Open source simply isn’t open source without a proper license. Unless you’ve explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you’ve only showed others your code; you…

GitHub has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code, a program where students receive a stipend to contribute to open source projects. If you…

Just like our Mac client, you can now use GitHub for Windows to submit pull requests to GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, right from your desktop. We didn’t forget forks, either!…