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Our Open Source

A list of projects extracted and open sourced from GitHub can be found on the GitHub account. We've also forked all the projects we are using on the site. Meta,…

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Tasty Tidbits

Chris Wanstrath of Err the Blog (hey that's me!) just posted an article covering some tasty GitHub tidbits. Range highlighting, key shortcuts, keeping dotfiles in git, and the GitHub gem…

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The Fabulous Scriptaculous Wiki

script.aculo.us, the popular Prototype based JS effect and control framework, is moving its wiki to GitHub. Pitch in and help 'em out. The GitHub wiki system will soon undergo some…

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Rolling with Engine Yard

The secret's out. Popular Rails host Engine Yard recently issued a press release titled GitHub and Lighthouse Tap Private Cluster from Engine Yard. In it you can find some choice…

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GitHub Badges!

Many users are claiming coolness boosts of 90% - 100% after installing Dr Nic's GitHub Badge on their blog. I should know -- I'm one of them. Just look at…

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Deploying Without Deploy Keys

Tim Dysinger has a great guide on Deploying with Capistrano, Git and SSH-Agent. Check it out to learn how to deploy your web app without needing deploy keys.

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Awesome Git Internals PDF

New from Peepcode, Scott Chacon's Git Internals PDF is sure to be a hit. If you're wondering the ins and outs of Git, beyond the porcelain commands, this PDF is…

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It’s a mirror

Looks like jakobo had some hard drive troubles this weekend. Ouch. Luckily, thanks to backups and GitHub, he didn't lose much. I did a fresh install upgrade from Tiger to…

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The GitHub Podcast…

...is coming soon. But we need your help! Please send us any Git or GitHub related questions so we can answer them on the show. You can ask questions via…

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More Fluid Tastiness

Welp, I finally upgraded to Leopard today. And you know what that means... Fluid! Now that I can run standalone GitHub, I thought it would be fun to play with…

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Limits are coming…

It's almost that time. If you're seeing the message below, please head to your account page and either upgrade your plan or take the steps necessary to limit your usage…

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Repository Admin Tab

Repository collaborator permissions are coming very soon. You'll be able to give someone read, write, or admin access to your repository. To prepare for that, we've added an "Admin" tab…

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When limits are enforced…

Some people are wondering what will happen to their private repositories next Thursday if they exceed their plan's limit. Well, they'll simply become inaccessible. You should clone and delete them…