The latest blogs from GitHub

On April 8-9, Git Merge returned to Europe, this time to La Gaite Lyrique in Paris. Over 200 people attended to celebrate ten years of Git, and with your help…

We love all the awesome little Octicons. Now you can wear Octicons…tons of Octicons! Available in the GitHub Shop

For the past year, GitHub has hosted small, informal events for beginners to Git and GitHub. We call them Patchwork events, and we’ve held them all over the world. We’re…

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…

One year ago today, Atom went from private alpha to open source software in hopes that the sunshine would help it reach its true potential. Thanks to you, our users…

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…

The Organization audit log allows you to quickly review actions performed by members of your organization on GitHub. You may need to look for specific activity or even through your…

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…

At Microsoft Build 2015, we announced deep GitHub integration in Visual Studio 2015, along with GitHub Enterprise 2.2.0. This release will help developers who work with the Microsoft stack make…

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…

CodeConf 2015, GitHub’s premiere open source event, will take place on June 25-26 in Tennessee. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a special community experience…

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…

DotNetFringe is on next week in Portland. @haacked, @ammeep and @shiftkey and other local GitHubbers will be around, and we’d love to hang out with attendees and locals after the…

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…

Next week, we’ll converge in Paris to celebrate 10 years of Git. Thank you for helping us raise funds that benefit the Software Freedom Conservancy. We look forward to hanging…

Patchwork Wellington We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, that will be co-hosted with our friends at BizDojo at their Project: Blank Canvas space…

Our next Patchwork hack night will be on Monday, April 13, 2015, and co-hosted with our friends at Notman House in Montréal, QC. 🎉 If you’ll be in town for…

Do you remember your first open source project? This shirt with an early GitHub motto will take you back to that first commit. Get them in the GitHub Shop

We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com’s history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination…

@danishkhan & @newmerator are at RubyConf Philippines! We’d love to share a 🍺 or 🍻 with those of you that will be in the area. Please come by Ocean Bar…