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…
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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…
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…
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…
The Future of Coding
Rob Hudson and a few co-workers recently tried to build a full fledged Django app in 3 hours using Git and GitHub. Really, it's a match made in heaven: an…
Serious Bug Tracking
We've moved our bug tracking and feature requests to Lighthouse. Thanks to the ActiveReload guys for making a great product. Update With the launch of our new issue tracker, our…
Control Git with Gestures
topfunky has an excellent post on using "gestures to control Git". From the article: Swipe up to git push Swipe down to git pull Swipe left to see git status
Hackers Agree: GitHub Rocks
As the launch draws near I thought I'd share some awesome things people have been saying about the GH. What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social…
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…
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,…