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Chris Wanstrath

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Myspace for hackers?

rtomayko says GitHub is 'Myspace for Hackers' over on his blog. Flattering, yes, but read closely: this dude gets it. From his post: "Pull requests" happen every day over email…

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hCardy Profiles

We added a 'profile' link to your badge tonight, giving you easy access to your public profile. It's, more or less, what everyone else sees. To go with it, we…

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One Thousand Strong

The first repository in the production db was created October 29th. The first private beta repository was created January 12th. The 1,000th repository was created today, Feburary 25th. (And yeah,…

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Activity Feeds Are Go

Activity feeds are now active. Three, in particular: events for you, events from you, and public events from you. The private feeds are protected with HTTP authentication. You need to…

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Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now

Last night I pushed out a feature Tom and I have been talking about since day one: pull requests. That's the short walkthrough. You can use it to tell people…

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The Blog Arrives

The blog is finally here. This is where we're gonna drop all sorts of Git and GitHub related eggs of knowledge: new features, upcoming features, bug fixes, etc etc. Also,…

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Hotkeys and Wikis

Hey everyone, welcome to GitHub. Keep your feedreader pointed here for daily updates on new features, bug fixes, and general gitbauchery. First up: we just enabled hotkeys for trees and…