The latest blogs from GitHub

For many developers getting started with Git on Windows, one of the confusing features of Git is that the default editor for commit messages is Vim. While Vim is a…

For the past year or so we’ve been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he…

Chicago is the beneficiary of another GitHub Drinkup this Thursday, October 27, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. We’re holding it at the Celtic Crossings tl;dr Summary: Thursday, October 27 7:00pm to…

The first annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament was held yesterday in San Francisco at the Mission Rec Center. 17 teams joined us for 4 hours of ball throwing fun, in the…

Over the years we’ve added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features. Let’s talk about some of those…

About a year and a half ago we announced SVN client support, which could be used for limited access to GitHub repositories from Subversion clients. Today we’re launching new, improved…

Yesterday Zend announced full support for Git and GitHub in the next version of Zend Studio (9.0). If you’re a PHP developer, chances are you know about Zend — and…

Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…

We are battling for charity next week at the First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Invitational. If you’re in the Bay Area and think your company has the balls, sign up here.…

AppHarbor, an awesome Git-aware hosting platform for .NET web projects, has announced support for integrating GitHub projects into their build system. Set up correctly, this means that pushing to GitHub…

GitHub is in Tokyo, Japan and we would love to invite you for free drinks on Friday October 14. The event will be held at the Ruby Room Tokyo (東京)…

Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last. Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page! You can also use the context button to switch between organizations…

¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we’ve never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…

With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned…

GitHub is hosting a drinkup in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday starting at 7pm. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying great conversations with other NoVA hackers! Wednesday,…

This week in Brooklyn are two awesome events, Brooklyn Beta and Brooklyn Alpha. We will be hosting a drinkup this Wednesday at 10:30pm at Boat. It’s a cute hipster dive…

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year GitHub is offering a Pinktocat t-shirt to help the cause. All proceeds of this fabulous limited edition shirt will be donated…

We’ve taken the Octobooth out for its second conference, JavaOne. Stop by the booth and say hello. Join us and our friends from Tasktop for a drink at Jasper’s Corner…