The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub’s very own Eston Bond designed some awesome business cards. And yes, that’s an embossed octocat.

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…

While you’re waiting for the long anticipated MergeButton™, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few bits of documentation we have for pull requests. If you have any…

As the last stop on my four-country, three-conference international tour I’m coming to Belfast! The festivities will start Saturday, September 18th at 19:00 at Duke of York. So, come by…

I’m in Moscow for the @mail.ru Tech Forum and I’ll be holding a casual GitHub Drinkup at Sally O’Brien’s starting at 21:00. So, come by and meet me (Tom Preston-Werner).…

It’s that time again: the 2010 Git User Survey is here! All questions are optional, but every answer you give helps make git even more awesome. The survey will run…

Update: Done! If you notice any issues, file a support issue with the user/repo path. No data on our end was deleted, so we can restore any lost data. Update:…

Join Tom, Kyle, Scott and PJ at the Guinness Gravity Bar this Saturday from 20:00. There will be a bunch of people there for the FunConf after party, so make…

A few weeks back twitter removed basic auth support and as a result many of you haven’t been receiving twitter notifications for changes to your repositories. We’ve taken the the…

While Twitter may see traffic spikes during Apple events, we see quite the opposite:

GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You’ve used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we’re taking it to…

Mozilla Labs is now mirroring open source to GitHub: http://github.com/mozillalabs Read the blog post or check out the repositories on GitHub. Rumor has it we’ll be seeing more from Mozilla…

Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you’re interested…

I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks,…

kinisoftware ha creado un vídeo en español explicando como preparar un entorno de desarrollo Grails utilizando también Git (con GitHub en remoto) y SpringSource Tool Suite. kinisoftware gracias!

iOSDevCamp 2010 is being held at the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California this weekend. What is it? Straight from the horse’s mouth: iOSDevCamp (previously know as iPhoneDevCamp and iPadDevCamp)…

Lets do this meetup thing. The Facts: Benders Bar 806 S Van Ness Ave (between 19th& 20th St) Thursday, August 19th 2010 8:30pm

I’m currently at the FOSSLC conference in Ottawa, CA and we’re going out to Dantessa Italian Bar tonight starting at 21:00 (9pm for us Americans). GitHub will be buying a…

Earlier today we rolled out a minor design update to the site. Notably, we have a brand new home page (remember, you can always get to the homepage at http://github.com/home):…

We’ve been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we’re launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to…