Let There Be Renaming
Repositories can be renamed via their edit page. Users can be renamed via their account page. That is all.
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New Git Site
Everyone's favorite Git magician, Scott Chacon, recently released an awesome new resource for everything Git: http://git-scm.com/ In addition to Scott's Gitcasts, our new Guides homepage, and other existing Git resources,…
Revamping the Guides
In an effort to make everyone's Git and GitHub experience a little easier, we're currently working on overhauling our guides. The first step was to replace the existing guides homepage…
Embedded Gists
Okay, this is obvious: you can now embed gists directly into your website, blog, project overview, myspace page, whatever. Your browser does not support IFrames I've personally wanted this for…
Improved SSH Key Organization
The original ssh public key interface left a lot to be desired. It's was bulky, unintuitive, and altogether a pain to manage if you had lots of public keys. With…
Here’s the Gist of it
Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We'd love versioning. We'd love SSL on our private pastes.…
Formatted Files
Files in your repository are now formatted same as the README. This means if you have a file with a @.markdown@ extension, for example, it'll show up all pretty-like. Enjoy.…
Supercharged Diff One-Liners
I've just added a small diff enhancement that will help you determine what changed in one line diff sections. By highlighting the specific changes, you can now see at a…
Supercharged Commits (on your site)
Ari Lerner has a blog post about keeping your site as fresh as your code. How? By showing off recent commits. See it in action on the poolparty website: Nice.…
Supercharged Downloads
The Download button is now supercharged. It gives you the option to download a Zip version of the repository and suggests other downloads - recent tags, basically - giving people…
Services Galore
After open sourcing the GitHub services code, we've been just floored with the number of pull requests for adding tons of functionality. We launched the service hooks with just Campfire…
Commit Comment Preview
It's here for the faceboxes - I'm so sick of seeing people guess wrong about the formatting. Really, it makes me sad. Coming soon everywhere else.
RubyGem Info
Now that it's so easy to install gems, we figured that you should know when a repository offers a gem install. So, that's what we did: If you see a…
Popular Languages
We're working on some awesome new visualizations and statistics here at GitHub. While they're not quite ready to roll out, there is one chart I wanted to share. These are…
GitHub Loves RubyGems 1.2
For the folks trying to install a RubyGem via GitHub prior to yesterday's release, you'd get the all too familiar "Updating metadata for 563 gems..." every time. Well no more,…