The latest blogs from GitHub

Some of us are heading to Portland next week for Community Leadership Summit and OSCON, so we’re having a drinkup Sunday night. The facts: Rontoms, 600 East Burnside, Portland OR,…

A few of us are going to be in Boston this weekend for Monospace 2011 which means it’s time for another drinkup! Details: 8pm Saturday night July 23, 2011 Flat…

The first of our tickets for Magma Rails goes to Fernando. Signing up in our first year, Fernando has been a GitHub member longer than the others who entered and…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. This week, we’re extending a warm…

For this month’s Drinkup, we’re doing it in the neighborhood… our new neighborhood. As some of you may know, we just moved to GitHub HQ 2.0, as in last weekend.…

It’s time for another conference ticket give-away. This time it’s for Magma Rails, a Ruby/Rails conference in Mexico. To celebrate their second year, we have 2 tickets to give away.…

A big congratulations goes out to Jonathon! He’ll be traveling across the ditch to Wellington for a few handles, some Maori roast and of course Python. Thank you to all…

From time to time we get requests asking us to add support for new highlighting lexers, recognize additional extensions as certain languages, or ignore a directory from a repo’s stats…

Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you’ve pushed your code to GitHub.…

The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We…

We have an extra ticket for Kiwi PyCon! The conference is in the lovely Wellington, NZ in late August. If you’re interested in going, just fork this gist and answer…

We deployed a big change to GitHub Services this week. The code is now clearer, more consistent, and better tested (thanks to Faraday). We also recently added support for Redmine,…

As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we’ve revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we’ve…

We’ve just opened up access to a feature we’ve been brewing for some time now… transferring repositories between accounts! While we’ve actually had this capability for a few months now,…

Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…

It is that time once again! Next Monday, June 13, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or…

The site will be down for maintenance tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 8, 2011) at 20:00 PST. We’ll be restarting a couple redis servers to increase limits. Total downtime shouldn’t exceed…

It’s almost the second Thursday of the month, you know what that means… another drinkup. All of you visiting for WWDC should come and experience a drinkup on our home…

The statute of limitations have finally expired for a few nefarious deeds committed by GitHub employees, so our crack team of lawyers admitted we could finally build a long-overdue shiny…

A few of us (@tmm1, @atmos, @sr, @defunkt) are in Amsterdam this week. We will be at the amsterdam.rb meetup at 17:00, followed by drinks at De Bekeerde Suster around…

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk, a tech analyst firm, gave a presentation this morning entitled Survival of the Forges wherein he compared the four main software forges: Sourceforge, Google Code, GitHub,…