Scott Chacon

I wanted to follow up on the WhyGitIsBetterThanX project that I basically stopped working on the day it went live and am now spending a few minutes a day maintaining.…

Why do I love GitHub? There are many reasons, even forgetting that they now employ me… One of the coolest ones, however, is the community. There are lots of hosting…

As we all know, Git is the best SCM system out there. However, some people have decided that we in the GitHub community may be misled by hype or the…

At the beginning of this month, I gave a talk at RubyConf in Florida about using Git in Ruby applications. It basically goes over some of the strengths of using…

One of the features I use a lot in git is ‘git blame’, which will show you who was the last person to change each line in any file in…

While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…

The whole GitHub crew just got back from RubyConf 2008 this weekend, which went from Thursday through Saturday. I gave a talk on “Using Git in your Ruby Applications”, which…

Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we’re unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we’ve been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…

What happens when a dozen Git developers get together for beers after an all day Git conference? Patches like this: Subject: [PATCH 1/1] diff: support making output friendlier for fine,…

The secret is out! Today Google released the entire Android stack as open source software and guess what version control system they are using? That’s right, it’s Git. I say…