The latest blogs from GitHub

While making your source code available in a public GitHub repository is awesome, it’s important to be sure you don’t accidentally commit your passwords, secrets, or anything else that other…

GitHub is planning a conference like we’ve never planned before. Get ready for GitHub Universe – part festival, part conference, all for anyone who cares about making great software. From…

We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, February 10th 2015, co-hosted with our friends at Xero in Melbourne. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop…

The GitHub Charity Dodgeball tournament is back, and better than ever. Details Where? SoMa Recreaton Center 270 6th Street San Francisco, CA When? Sunday, March 22, 1:00pm until 6:30pm 1:00…

Young and future coders rejoice! We’ve just merged a pull request for new baby one-pieces and kid tees. Grab yours in the GitHub Shop

It’s already been a year since we launched the GitHub Security Bug Bounty, and, thanks to bug reports from researchers across the globe, 73 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in our…

We’re excited to let you know that the next installment of our Patchwork hack night will be happening on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at iXperience. 🎉 No coding experience needed…

Next week we’re hosting another GitHub Town Hall on academia and open source in partnership with the eScience Institute at University of Washington. Software plays a vital role in much…

Git will be 10 years old in April, and we’re bringing back Git Merge to celebrate. Mark your calendars for April 8-9th to be a part of the only Git…

As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…

It’s a new year and we couldn’t think of a better way to start it off than with a new release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve included a number of highly-requested…

Applications integrate with GitHub to help you and your team build, test, and deploy software. But not all apps are created equal. By adopting a list of approved applications, organization…

Pull requests are fantastic. We use them every day to review and discuss code, documentation, and designs. Now you can create pull requests without leaving the warm embrace of GitHub…

Starting conversations around changes is what pull requests and GitHub Flow are all about, so we’re excited to introduce a powerful shortcut that gets you there even faster. When using…

Ever found yourself in a situation where your working directory contains a mix of changes that don’t quite fit together? It would be easy to commit it all at once…

Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…

To keep GitHub as secure as possible for every user, we will remove RC4 support in our SSL configuration on github.com and in the GitHub API on January 5th 2015.…

A critical Git security vulnerability has been announced today, affecting all versions of the official Git client and all related software that interacts with Git repositories, including GitHub for Windows…

Whether you’re reviewing project issues from your phone while traveling for business, or trying to find a specific Node.js repository to show a friend at lunch, we want the GitHub.com…

GitHub is joining the LOT Network, an open patent-licensing program designed to reduce patent litigation. The rising threat of patent trolls Some claim that software patents are essential to motivate…

Unified and split diffs now feature syntax highlighting, which adds colors to your code to make its meaning and structure clearer. Now you can more easily understand the code that…