Get ready for Pride Month with our new GitHub Pride and Trans Shirts
It’s almost Pride Month, and we’re rolling out the rainbow carpet a little early to announce a new shirt in the GitHub Shop, inspired by the LGBTQ tech community. After…
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The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
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See you at OSCON this week
Greetings, Austin! If you’re going to OSCON this week, we’d love to meet you. We’ll be at the GitHub booth in the Expo Hall on Wednesday from 10am-7pm and Thursday…
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Satellite: beyond the sessions
With 14 sessions and two keynotes, there’s plenty to do on the first day of Satellite. But make sure to save some energy for socializing, workshops, and after parties while…
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Protect your organization’s repositories with new security settings
Organization owners can now limit the ability to delete repositories. The new repository deletion setting is available for all plans hosted by GitHub and will be coming to GitHub Enterprise…
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Integrations moves into pre-release with new features
Last September, we launched the Early Access Program of GitHub Integrations, a new option for extending GitHub. We’ve recently added some new features and moved Integrations into pre-release so you…
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Git LFS 2.1.0 released
Today we’re announcing the next major release of Git LFS: v2.1.0, including new features, performance improvements, and more. New features Status subcommand With Git LFS 2.1.0, get a more comprehensive…
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How investing in teaching with GitHub pays off
How Harvard, San Francisco State, and The College of New Jersey use GitHub in their courses As a teacher, you juggle the endless stream of student emails, faculty responsibilities, and…
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Building robust systems involves designing for failure. As Site Reliability Engineers at GitHub, we’re always on the lookout for places where redundancy can help to mitigate problems, and today we’ll…
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A sneak peek at Satellite sessions
Developers, community builders, and technical leaders from around the world are gearing up to share their experiences in fourteen sessions at Satellite on May 22. Here’s a closer look at…
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Why version control is required for Comp 20 at Tufts University
Students don’t leave Ming Chow’s course until they are prepared to hold their own on an engineering team. Full stop. What’s required for those rigorous engineering roles? “Experience making tangible…
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Announcing updates to the GitHub Developer Program
For over three years, the GitHub Developer Program has been a launchpad for developers—from testing their newest applications to growing their biggest businesses. Now, we’re excited to build on what’s…
Learn moreThe library Open sourcing our Delegated Account Recovery implementation
In February, we shipped the “Recover Accounts Elsewhere” feature to help people regain access to their accounts if they lose access to their two-factor device or token. It is an…
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The GitHub Satellite schedule is here: save your seat
There’s still time to register for GitHub Satellite, and now you can buy a ticket knowing more about what’s in store. Hear from the GitHub team You’ll start day one…
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Private emails, now more private
GitHub has supported using an alternate “noreply” email address to author web-based commits for a while now. Starting today, there’s another way to ensure you don’t inadvertently publish your email…
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Celebrating nine years of GitHub with an anniversary sale
We’re celebrating almost a decade of code, collaboration, and octocats! Over the last nine years, our community has grown to almost 20 million users, 57 million repositories, and 100 million…
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GitHub Satellite scholarships and community partners
If you haven’t grabbed your GitHub Satellite ticket yet, we’re making it easier to get there. A select number of free tickets are now available through scholarships and community partners.…
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GitHub Issues and user testing as authentic assessment
A course organized around users, not exams In his Startup Programming course at the University of Victoria, Alexey Zagalsky asks students to design products based on user needs. Working together…
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GitHub Satellite 2017 tickets on sale
General admission tickets for GitHub Satellite 2017 are now on sale. Join us at Printworks in London May 22-23 for the regional extension of our flagship product and user conference,…
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Welcoming CodePlex projects to GitHub
Earlier today, Microsoft announced the shutdown plans for CodePlex. We’re working with the CodePlex team to streamline the experience of importing projects to GitHub for CodePlex users. As always, we…
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Disabling projects
Not every team manages their work on GitHub in the same way. Now you can disable repository and organization-wide Projects if you’re not using them. Users with admin privileges on…
Learn morePolicy Work/life balance in employee intellectual property agreements
At GitHub, we recognize that running a great business over the long term requires a measure of “work/life balance” – and that includes recognizing that developers and other knowledge workers…
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