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Classroom for GitHub is available now, making it easier than ever to teach with GitHub. Thousands of teachers use GitHub in their courses every day. They distribute starter repositories, give…

The Systems Team at GitHub works to solve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks at the lowest levels of our infrastructure. Over the past two years we’ve undertaken a major project…

There are many cloud services that support automated code deployment from GitHub. In this post, we’re going to be taking a look at connecting a GitHub repository to a Microsoft…

It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how to undo…

The new GitHub Desktop is now available. It’s a fast, easy way to contribute to projects from OS X and Windows. Whether you’re new to GitHub or a seasoned user,…

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.5. Here’s our take on its most useful new features. git worktree: one Git repository with multiple working trees It’s not…

The release of GitHub Enterprise 2.0 brought more than just new features and support for deployment on Amazon Web Services. It also included a rework of our virtual machine architecture…

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…