Visualize your project’s community
A new graph is available in the “Graphs” tab to visualize your repository’s data. With the dependents graph, you can now explore how repositories that contain Ruby gems relate to…
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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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Search commit messages
You can now search for commits from either the main search page or within a repository. Quickly discover who removed set -e or find commits that involved refactoring. Check out…
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Save the date: GitHub Universe 2017
GitHub Universe returns in 2017, and we already have some surprises in store for you. Mark your calendars for October 10-12, 2017 at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Super Early…
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Patchwork Hobart, Australia
We hope you will join us and our friends at linux.conf.au as we host a Patchwork on the isle of Tasmania, in the city of Hobart. The event is open…
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New theme chooser for GitHub Pages
You can now build a GitHub Pages website with a Jekyll theme in just a few clicks. Create a new GitHub repository or go to an existing one. Open the…
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Git Merge 2017: the full agenda is now live
The complete agenda for Git Merge 2017 is now live. Check it out. Learn how companies like Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Autodesk, Yubico, MIT, Atlassian, and the Software Freedom Conservancy are…
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Game Off IV Highlights
Last month, we challenged you to create a game based on the theme hacking, modding, and/or augmenting. For all those that submitted entries, thank you! A little holiday gift will…
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Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub
You can now resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub right from your pull requests, saving you a trip to the command line and helping your team merge pull requests faster.…
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Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown…
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GitHub uses MySQL to store its metadata: Issues, Pull Requests, comments, organizations, notifications and so forth. While git repository data does not need MySQL to exist and persist, GitHub’s service…
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Introducing review requests
You can now request a review explicitly from collaborators, making it easier to specify who you’d like to review your pull request. You can also see a list of people…
Learn moreArchitecture & optimization How we made diff pages three times faster
We serve a lot of diffs here at GitHub. Because it is computationally expensive to generate and display a diff, we’ve traditionally had to apply some very conservative limits on…
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You’ve been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have…
Learn moreThe library GLB part 2: HAProxy zero-downtime, zero-delay reloads with multibinder
As part of the design of GLB, we set out to solve a few of the common issues found when using HAProxy at scale.
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Git 2.11 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.11.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features: Abbreviated…
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Git Merge 2017 tickets are now available
Tickets for Git Merge 2017 are now on sale 🎉 Git Merge is the pre-eminent Git-focused conference: a full day offering technical talks and user case studies, plus a full…
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New in the shop: The Octoplush
It’s time to cozy up with the all new Octoplush collectable-available now in the GitHub Shop. Share the Octoplush with friends and family. Just don’t feed these octocats. They’re already…
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GitHub Extension now supports Visual Studio 2017 RC
The GitHub Extension for Visual Studio now supports Visual Studio 2017 RC, including support for cloning repositories directly from the Visual Studio Start Page. We’ve also improved our startup time…
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Go ahead, color outside the lines with the GitHub Activity Book starring our very own Mona the Octocat! Now available in the GitHub Shop.
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GitKraken joins the Student Developer Pack
GitKraken is now part of the Student Developer Pack. Students can manage Git projects in a faster, more user-friendly way with GitKraken’s Git GUI for Windows, Mac, and Linux. GitKraken…
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Today is Veteran’s Day here in the United States, or Remembrance Day in many places around the world, when we recognize those who have served in the military. Today many…
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