The latest blogs from GitHub

Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I’m…

Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…

Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a…

Come join @asenchi, @leongersing, @bkeepers, @spicycode, and me this Saturday, April 26 for a drinkup at Bell’s Brewery. We’ll be in town for Kalamazoo X but you need not be…

@mattgraham and @southgate will be in Recife for the Abril Pro Ruby conference on April 24th. We’ll be running a workshop earlier in the day, but if you can’t make…

We love using GitHub to write notes on specific lines in a diff — now it’s super easy to do from any smartphone! Just bring up your favorite pull request…

On April 7, 2014 information was released about a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, the cryptography library that powers the vast majority of private communication across the Internet. This library…

Computer science professor, Armando Fox, is one of the thousands of teachers who use GitHub to give their students hands-on experience writing software in teams. On a recent trip to…

Sometimes when you’re in the zone, you get a ton of work done before you have a chance to pause and commit. You want to break the commit down to…

We’ve added support for editing labels on existing issues with the l hotkey. You can also edit milestones and assignees the same way.

At GitHub, we use lists for collaborating on software development, because lists are a simple and powerful tool for collaborating on anything. That’s why we’re introducing better visualization of list…

Join us for GitHub’s first-ever drinkup in Budapest on Tuesday, April 1! @jhosman and @emilyistoofunky will be in town for the Write the Docs EU conference. Come join them at…

We’re excited to be in town for the first ever Ruby Conference in the Philippines, and possibly even more excited to be hosting the after party! On the last night…

If you’re anything like us, you get involved in lots of conversations on GitHub over the course of your day. Sometimes, a good conversation from earlier in the day is…

Good news, everyone! Changing your public profile picture just got easier. Click the “Account Settings” icon in the header. Upload a picture of your awesome new haircut. Crop the picture…

GitHub is coming to Oxford! Come join @arfon at Raoul’s on Tuesday, March 25th at 7:30pm and enjoy some of the finest 🍻 🍸 🍷 in Oxford (UK). The Facts:…

Next Thursday, March 27th, we’re hosting another Patchwork night at GitHub HQ! Patchwork nights are hands-on learning Git and GitHub. Patchwork night is great for people new to Git and…

In addition to seeing your browser session activity, you can now view activity for your SSH keys and OAuth tokens as well. SSH key activity Find the most recent activity…

We love watching trending repositories on GitHub every day. All kinds of interesting projects bubble up and there is always something new to catch your eye. We want to collect…

There are a few GitHubbers in NZ at the moment, and we we’d love to catch up with everyone! But this time, we are going to do something a little…

GitHub is coming to Music City! Come join us at the Emma Bistro on Monday, March 24th when we’ll be hosting a training session on the basics of Git and…