The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re excited to be back at the Grace Hopper Conference this year! Stop by booth #108 to say hi and grab our newest sticker – the Gracehoptocat: We also have…

There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our…

很高興和大家宣布，十月十四號（星期二）我們將在五倍紅寶石台北出礦坑舉辦 Patchwork 活動。 We’re happy to announce our next Patchwork night on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at the 5xRuby offices! 完全不需要程式經驗/No coding experience required! Patchwork 是一個由 GitHub 主辦，專門給初學者的 Git 與…

In the spirit of making diffs of rich information easier to parse, SVG images are now viewable and diffable on GitHub! As always, you can find more details in our…

Keep track of all of your issues and pull requests with the new Issues Dashboard and the new Pull Requests Dashboard. When we rebuilt GitHub Issues earlier this summer, we…

Join @schacon, @mhagger, @vmg, @mastahyeti, @fooforge, @danishkhan, @mislav, @pmn and @jdennes for beers in Kreuzberg on Wednesday, October 8th at 20:00. The Facts: Wednesday, October 8th at 20:00. Golgatha Viewer…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to help the cause, we’re offering a new shirt in the GitHub Shop. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will be…

We’re in Seoul, Korea for DEVIEW 2014 this week! In collaboration with the Seoul Tech Society, I’ll be giving a talk on GitHub Secrets open to the public on Tuesday,…

I’ll be at London’s Future of Web Apps 2014 next week, and we’re throwing a meetup for Londoners on Sunday. Join us! You don’t need to be going to the…

Update: 2014-09-29 23:10 UTC We have published an update to the Git Shell tools for GitHub for Windows, which resolves the bash vulnerabilities CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186 and CVE-2014-7187. If you…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at GitHub HQ. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…

The entries are in, the votes are tallied, and we’ve chosen the winners for our third annual Data Challenge! First Place Our first place winner is Issue Stats (repository), by…

If you’re a Gmail user who gets GitHub notifications via email, you’ll notice that we’ve added subject-line links to issues and pull requests on notification messages. You can use these…

GitHub has always been about making open source software better, and today we’re launching TODO with a number of partners to help large organizations better support the open source community.…

GitHub is proudly sponsoring HACKMemphis this weekend. @jameswhite and I will be down visiting and would like to buy you a 🍻 or 🍸 and talk about whatever strikes you…

Our open and free Internet fuels some of the most incredible innovation in history. It provides new opportunities for billions of people to communicate and collaborate, contributes to economic growth…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Thursday, September 18, 2014, co-hosted with our friends at Dev Bootcamp NYC’s campus. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

Commits, compare views, and pull requests now highlight individual changed words instead of the entire changed section, making it easier for you to see exactly what’s been added or removed.…

Diffs now come in two flavors, unified and split. Switch between them on pull request, commit, and compare pages using the toggle in the top right of the page. The…

Wear our new GitHub Flow shirt and show off how easy it is to merge pull requests with high fashion. Check it out in the GitHub Shop.

At GitHub we say, “it’s not fully shipped until it’s fast.” We’ve talked before about some of the ways we keep our frontend experience speedy, but that’s only part of…