Commit Comments
In the past, maybe 100 years ago, I worked at a company where the diff of each commit was emailed to the developers. If anyone had a comment or question,…
We Launched
GitHub is officially live. Thanks for the awesome beta everyone. While you can sign up or upgrade your account now, it'll be one week (April 17th) before we start enforcing…
GitHub on Fluid
Want to use GitHub with Fluid? We got you covered. Here's a massive octocat for superb dock action.
Git Tricks
Know how to add changes to a previous commit? Commit only part of a changed file? Change the message of a commit 30 commits ago? If not, check out Ryan…
Comparing Git to Mercurial
Dustin has posted a great article comparing Git to Mercurial. He's obviously used both extensively and gives a level headed, interesting look at how they differ. Love the quote at…
Pushing and Pulling
Eric Goodwin has posted a short tutorial entitled Pushing and Pulling Branches on GitHub. It's a must read if you're interested in sharing work with your peers on a branch…
Get Some Shoes
Last summer, before GitHub, I spent a lot of time playing with Shoes. Ruby has always been lacking in the GUI department and Shoes is a really smart, innovative, cross-platform…
New to Git? Cheat!
Learning Git is not the easiest thing in the world. There are a ton of commands, many of which have multiple personalities. What's an aspiring hacker to do? The same…
Rails Moving to Git
Ruby on Rails is moving to Git and GitHub. Super cool. I particularly like the comment from AkitaOnRails: Right now, everybody is playing catch-up with Git, Git-svn and Github, no…
Back to Subversion
Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it's now reality. You may have noticed things have…
Easily Install the FF GitHub Search
Thanks to @VxJasonxV you can now install the GitHub Firefox easy-search from any page on our site: Search away.
Search GitHub in Firefox
Do you feel a sense of longing, even loss, when away from GitHub? Ian Ownbey provides some help: a Firefox search plugin for GitHub. Never be more than a few…
Super Awesome Search
We just rolled out our new and improved search. It's way better. Try out this search for git to see what I mean. It searches across repository names, descriptions, and…
Check Your Usage
Hey, wondering how much disk space you're using? Check your account page to find out. Usage is updated every time you push. As for me, I've got around 30 repositories…
Nu and Io on GitHub
Things have been quiet around here lately as we prepare for the launch. We're doing a lot of work on the backend to ensure we will be stable and swift…