The latest blogs from GitHub

Last night, the one millionth git repository was created on GitHub. That is a heck of a lot of repositories. Since we first launched, there have been a lot of…

The Software Craftsmanship North America 2010 conference looks pretty interesting and has a killer speaker lineup. Gonna be in Chicago in October? Check it out. Want to be in Chicago…

When we launched Compare View earlier this year, we knew there was a killer feature still missing: the ability to compare branches across repositories. Easy forking and the networks that…

A scheduled DB maintenance went haywire yesterday, taking a number of repositories temporarily offline. While pushing and pulling were briefly offline (and for that we’re sorry!), the first phase of…

Join us Thursday July 15th at Club Waziema- part Ethiopian restaurant, part dive bar, all kitsch. Besides the normal meeting for the sake of meeting, this week we’re celebrating Rick…

We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) at 18:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while this takes place, but all data…

Edit (11/18/2016): GitHub no longer supports languages other than English. Today, thanks to our great community, we’re turning on a number of languages that you can view GitHub in other…

I recently launched the first GitHub node.js project: nodeload. Nodeload replaces the ruby git archive download server. Basically, any time you download a tarball or zip file of any repository…

There’s been some recent discussion about rolling out new features. Ross at Flickr talked about using flags and flippers. Forrst mentioned their use of user buckets. The nice thing about…

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I suppose we should do something with this warehouse full of Fork You shirts we have. Starting to look like an episode of Hoarders up in here. Hey, you want…

Update [January 1, 2017]: Our pricing plans have changed. For information on our latest plans, check out our pricing page. When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the…

Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…

If you have ever forked a Gist just so you can remember which one it is, now you can just star it. There is now a ‘star’ button on each…

Update: The new fileserver is online and working now. Following up on last week’s fileserver problems, we will be swapping in the new server tonight (Wednesday, June 23rd) at 22:00…

It just occurred to me that we never mentioned Twitter’s been open sourcing code like crazy on GitHub over the past few months. They’ve put together a really great Twitter…

UPDATE: The upgrade ran without problems. We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Monday, June 21, 2010) at 22:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…

As you may know, on thursday, 2010-06-10, we had a machine in one of our fileserver pairs fail. This caused an outage for all users on that fileserver, and corrupted…

For all you Android developers out there, we now will automatically detect when you upload an Android package (.apk) file and will give you a QR code page link on…

If you’ve ever wished you could have push notifications sent to your iPhone when someone commits to your repository — today’s your lucky day. We recently added support for Notifo…