Top open source launches on GitHub
The open source community on GitHub has released some of the world’s most influential technologies. Earlier this month, a new dependency manager for JavaScript called Yarn was launched and hit…
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GitHub’s game jam, Game Off, returns next month
The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam, returns next month! Participants will have the entire month of November to build a game based on a secret theme (to…
Git 2.9 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.9.0, with a variety of features and bug fixes. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features: Faster…
Squash your commits
Git’s flexibility allows you to shape your workflow however you like. The organization of your git history is just one of the choices to make, but up until now the…
Git 2.8 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.8.0, featuring a variety of features, bugfixes, and other improvements from over 70 contributors. Here are some of the most useful…
Working with submodules
Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…
Counting Objects
The Systems Team at GitHub works to solve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks at the lowest levels of our infrastructure. Over the past two years we’ve undertaken a major project…
Git 2.5, including multiple worktrees and triangular workflows
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.5. Here’s our take on its most useful new features. git worktree: one Git repository with multiple working trees It’s not…
How to undo (almost) anything with Git
One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.
Git 2.4 — atomic pushes, push to deploy, and more
Git’s 10-year birthday celebrations notwithstanding, the Git community has been busy preparing another major new release of the Git command-line utility. Release 2.4.0 is weighted towards cleanups, bug fixes, and…
Game Off III – Everyone’s a Winner
Last month, we challenged you to fork a game repository and do something awesome with it based on our Tron-inspired theme, “the game has changed“. Below are the submissions. They’re…
Open source license usage on GitHub.com
Open source simply isn’t open source without a proper license. Unless you’ve explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you’ve only showed others your code; you…
The Game Off Returns!
The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam is returning next week! We’ve had some great games submitted in previous years and can’t wait to see what you come…
Git 2.3 has been released
The Git developers have just released a major new version of the Git command-line utility, Git 2.3.0. As usual, this release contains many improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes. Full…
GitHub Game Off II Winners
We announced our second annual game jam, the GitHub Game Off II, back in October. Today, we’re revealing the winners and giving you the chance to play and fork these…
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