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Here at GitHub, we’re always excited to see people using GitHub to collaborate on all sorts of things, code or non-code. Today, we’re adding a third dimension by making it…

Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…

Have you ever looked at a commit page on GitHub and wondered what branch the commit was in? We did too. If the commit is not on the default branch,…

At GitHub, we know that even great developers sometimes make mistakes. So, in GitHub for Windows, we’ve added Undo support for Discards, Commits, Rollbacks, and Merges: If you’ve accidentally committed…

Starting today, you can use commit messages to close issues in other repositories. Now you can include “fixes user/repo#45” in your commit message, and it will close the referenced issue,…

Starting today, you can move and rename files within your repositories on GitHub. Renaming a file You’ll notice that editing a file now lets you enter a new name for…

On an average weekday, more than 70,000 comments are added to discussions on GitHub. Today we’re introducing a small enhancement to the way you can reply to discussion threads to…

We show rendered markup in several places on GitHub, most notably including a project’s main README on the Repository page itself. Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files.…

Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

Finding great code on GitHub just got a whole lot easier. Today we’re releasing several big improvements to code search. New Technology First, we are unveiling our new search infrastructure…

Recently we changed the way closing issues via commit message works on GitHub. Now when you enter “Fixes #33” in a commit message, issue 33 will only be closed once…

GitHub Flavored Markdown is getting a little Task List flavoring. Today, we’re shipping an enhancement to our Markdown pipeline to support task lists. Task lists are lists with items marked…

Now you can create and delete branches from GitHub.com. Create a branch In your repository’s branch selector, just start typing a new branch name. We’ll give you the option to…

Today we’re happy to release Contributions: a new addition to profile pages that lets you see what everyone has been up to on GitHub. Popular Repositories Show off the fancy…

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another…