Open source

The vast majority of businesses today rely on open source, making it an essential part of the software industry. And millions of those projects are on GitHub. Learn about documentation, maintainers, gaming Git, licenses, and how open source positively impacts the world. We are committed to helping to build a more open, collaborative, and sustainable future for open source everywhere. You can also find information in our documentation about how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

Maintainers

Let’s talk about securing open source projects

In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…

Git

Git clone: a data-driven study on cloning behaviors

@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…

Git

Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone

As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…

Git

Commits are snapshots, not diffs

Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…

Open source

Release Radar · December 2020 Edition

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for December 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…

Open source

Release Radar · November 2020 Edition

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…

Gaming

GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement

The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or…

Gaming

13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻

WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk. Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were…

Maintainers

GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

Gaming

Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off

Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…

Git

Highlights from Git 2.29

The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been…

Gaming

Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition 🕹

The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…

Open source

Release Radar · October 2020 Edition

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for October 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech,…

Maintainers

GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

Maintainers

GitHub Action Hero · James Ives and “GitHub Pages Deploy”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…