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Announcing Open Source Guides

Announcing Open Source Guides

Participating in open source can be incredibly rewarding, but it's not always obvious how to make your first contribution, start a new project, or build an active community. To make…

Nadia Eghbal
Kindly Closing Pull Requests

Kindly Closing Pull Requests

Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…

Mike McQuaid
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Improved commenting with Markdown

You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you've always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…

Aaron Shekey
How the Services team uses GitHub

How the Services team uses GitHub

If you're writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team's primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…

Matt Duff
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Improving our SSL setup

As we announced previously we've improved our SSL setup by deploying forward secrecy and improving the list of supported ciphers. Deploying forward secrecy and up to date cipher lists comes…

Dirkjan Bussink
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An African hack trip

GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw drinkups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.…

Luke Hefson
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OctoTales • Balanced

Today we're excited to share a new episode of OctoTales - our video series about incredible companies using GitHub to work better together. This episode features Balanced. Since 2011, Balanced…

Drew Woods
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Git Merge Berlin 2013

Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they've…

Scott Chacon
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Get up to speed with Pulse

Today we're happy to release Pulse. Pulse is a great way to discover recent activity on projects. Maybe you haven't checked on your favorite repository in a while or you…

Justin Palmer
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Quick quotes

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…

Coby Chapple
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Notifications & Stars

Today, we’re releasing a new version of our notifications system and changing the way you watch repositories on GitHub. You’ll find the new notifications indicator next to the GitHub logo…

Kyle Neath
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New Issues and Gist API

One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…

Risk Olson