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on Feb. 19, 2019
GitHub launched our Security Bug Bounty program in 2014, allowing us to reward independent security researchers for their help in keeping GitHub users secure. Over the past five years, we have been continuously impressed by the hard work and ingenuity of our researchers. Last year was no different …
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on Feb. 24, 2019
The open source Git project just released Git 2.21 with features and bug fixes from over 60 contributors. We last caught up with you on the latest Git releases when 2.19 was released. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since then.Human-readable dates with …
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on Mar. 5, 2019
At GitHub, we use Elasticsearch as the main technology backing our search services. In order to administer our clusters, we use ChatOps via Hubot. As of 2017, those commands were a collection of Bash and Ruby-based scripts.Although this served our needs for a time, it was becoming increasingly appa…
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on Feb. 7, 2019
Since the beta release of GitHub Actions last October, thousands of users have added workflow files to their repositories. But until now, those files only work with the tools GitHub provided: the Actions editor, the Actions execution platform, and the syntax highlighting built into pull requests. …
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on Sep. 28, 2018
On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! :tada:In total the project took a year and a half to upgrade from Rails 3.2 to Rails 5.2. Along the way we took time to clean up technical debt and improve the overall code…
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on Sep. 18, 2018
This blog post complements a live demonstration on our recently announced site: experiments.github.comMotivationSearching code on GitHub is currently limited to keyword search. This assumes either the user knows the syntax, or can anticipate what keywords might be in comments surrounding the code …