The latest blogs from GitHub

Update: The drinkup is now at 10pm! I’ll be in Orlando on Thursday doing some Git training at Full Sail University in Orlando. While I’m there why don’t we do…

The IntelliJ platform has had GitHub integration for a few months, but today they rolled out Advanced GitHub Integration: Rebase My GitHub Fork. What is it? Rebase support. Now staying…

We just rolled out a slightly redesigned Pull Request discussion view. You can check it out on any pull request like this one on rack/rack. This refresh opens up the…

It’s that time again. GitHub will be in Cambridge, MA on Feb 10th and we’re doing a drinkup at John Harvards Brew House. And by “GitHub” I mean me. If…

We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…

Many of you already know about Gollum, the git-powered wiki system that we use for every GitHub Wiki. While the Wikis have been proven great for those that know git…

Several months ago I hosted a GitHub meetup in Boston to which tons of local geeks attended and drank free beer. During that meeting, I talked to a local graduate…

Nico Hagenburger released a nifty bit of HTML/CSS today that allows you to get the famous “Fork me on GitHub” banner on the corner of your site. But this time,…

Here’s a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we’re doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first “real” workday for…

If you’ve emailed GitHub Support recently you may have met Petros. He’s the incredibly helpful second half of our support team, and today he starts working full time at GitHub.…

Join us on Wednesday, December 15th for a meetup in beautiful (albeit damp) Portland OR. Among other things, we will be celebrating what is forecasted to be the day of…

Erik Michaels-Ober started a Kickstarter project to fund Hubcap, a proposed native Mac client for GitHub. The plan is to bring the elegance of various Twitter clients to GitHub and…

Welcome to the holiday edition of GitHub meetups! Its exactly like all of the other meetups, but its in December. Think of it as a congratulations, you made it to…

Those of you running recent versions of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox 4 may have noticed some changes to tree browsing on GitHub. The new HTML5 History API (which really has…

I pushed the new Organization API documentation today. You can now access and modify Organization and Team information for your repositories. The Org API managed to test the limits of…

It seems like way too often I run into someone who’s been using GitHub for a long time but has just learned about one of our long-time features like fork…

I’m going to be in the DC area this weekend for Git training in Reston, VA through our friends at Jumpstart Lab, so I thought it would be a good…

Do you write code in your free time, for fun? Ever thought about doing it to save lives? Random Hacks of Kindness is a global hackathon on December 4 and…

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Octocat Wednesday? Probably not because I just made that up. Lucky for you we’re also making up the prices around here…

Looking for awesome developers? Good news! GitHub Jobs and The Changelog have teamed up to showcase your job listings on The Changelog’s popular podcast. Just check “Advertise this listing on…

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant – you can’t link to it from another program because…