Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub
Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!
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Gist Improvements
Another day, more updates! We just rolled out some subtle changes to Gist Search! All gists are now searchable. Want to find all gists about unicorn? Done. Unified user box.…
Speedy Version Sorting
Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It's used to sort a repo's tags: This morning I ran the numbers and the…
New repository lists on your dashboard
Last night we rolled out some nifty new repository lists for your dashboard in case you haven't noticed.  Find-as-you-type filter bar: If you know the repository name or owner…
Repo Search Autocomplete
Text in our global search bar now auto-completes repositories you own or are watching. Along with our dashboard tweaks this should make it easier to navigate the site. Enjoy! (Protip:…
Dashboard Tweaks
Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a "public /…
Ref Names in URLs
We've got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You'd take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…
New Project Root URLs
As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the "/tree/default_branch" suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course "tree/master" will 301 redirect, don't worry.) Enjoy!
Speedy Gem Indexing
As of RubyGems 1.3.2, the index generation code supports incremental index updates. What this means is instead of taking minutes rebuild all of the indexes for GitHub's thousands of gems,…
Pick your Default Branch
Most repos use the branch master as their default, but Git doesn't force this upon you and why should we? Now you can change it to whatever you want. This…
GitHub API, take two
A lot of people were excited about the Issues release yesterday, but many asked for an API for it. Because we love you all and you're so good to us,…
GitHub Issue Tracker!
It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you'll now see an "Issues" tab in the top menu. Here's a quick rundown of…
Pages 2.0
Prior to actually building GitHub Pages, we had been kicking around the idea for a while. I thought nobody would bother, Chris and Tom thought differently. I decided the only…
GitHub Pages Upgraded to Jekyll 0.5.0
I just released Jekyll 0.5.0 which contains a huge overhaul that allows you to specify options in a _config.yml file. GitHub Pages will honor most of these settings, so if…