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A Git deployment workflow

Bryan Helmkamp of weplay has published his team's Git deployment workflow over on his blog. It includes a bunch of Rake tasks which we've Gist'd for your convenience. # by…

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Maven-enabled project hosting

mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either - mrdon's solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…

Chris Wanstrath
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The Post-Apocalyptic Guide

Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru" has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…

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Getting Real

A post I wrote about applying 37signals' Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…

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Upcoming Speaking Gigs

In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you're at either of these events stop by and say hi.…

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New to Git?

Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy - A great guide for beginners Git for designers - No knowledge of…

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Easy Peezy Capistrano Deployment

The guys over at EdgeCase have written up a guide on Easier Capistrano Deployments from GitHub. It explains how to setup and use the @:forward_agent@ option when you deploy. Nice!

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Dashboard Widget

The stand up fellas over at New Leaders have created a GitHub Dashboard Widget for OS X. Check it out - very slick!

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Visual Cheat Sheet

Even if you're a Git master, Zack Rusin's Git Cheat Sheet may prove useful. It's got a whole lotta commands ready for cheatin'. Thanks Zack!

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git-remote-branch

If you aren't using the GitHub gem, then perhaps "webmat's":webmat git_remote_branch may interest you. The aim of the micro-project can best be summed up with a quote: I believe the…

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Cheat + Git = Chit

You've problem seen Cheat by way of the Git cheat sheet. Yeah, it rocks. Well guess what - the industrious Robin took it a step forward and wrote a Git-backed…

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Fork Sighting

[Slant](http://github.com/slant) caught forking some food. Got any 'Fork You' spottings? "Hit me":mailto:chris@logicalawesome.com.

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