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HTTP Cloning

You can now clone public repositories hosted on GitHub over HTTP. This is very slow and should only be used if the git port (9418) is blocked due to a…

Chris Wanstrath
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The Status Blog

Site feel slow? See a weird SSH message? Have a strange feeling in your gut? Wonder no longer - check out the GitHub Status Blog to see service related news…

Chris Wanstrath
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Improved Pledgie Profiles

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Alliteration is fun isn't it? Our friends at Pledgie busted out their css wizardry to restyle your project's profiles to give them a more consistent…

PJ Hyett
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Gem Builder Feedback

Before today, when you pushed your gemspec to GitHub the only way you knew whether or not your gem built successfully is if it showed up on our server. Not…

PJ Hyett
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Repository Searching

We've just rolled out a search box on every repository that allows you to search by a number of criteria. As always, your feedback how we can tweak the search…

PJ Hyett
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New Fluid Icon

Speaking of GitHub as a Fluid App, I've whipped up a better icon. This one looks nicer in the dock and doesn't get lost if you have a dark desktop…

Tom Preston-Werner
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More Fluid Tastiness

Welp, I finally upgraded to Leopard today. And you know what that means... Fluid! Now that I can run standalone GitHub, I thought it would be fun to play with…

Chris Wanstrath
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Repository Admin Tab

Repository collaborator permissions are coming very soon. You'll be able to give someone read, write, or admin access to your repository. To prepare for that, we've added an "Admin" tab…

Chris Wanstrath
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Commit Comments

In the past, maybe 100 years ago, I worked at a company where the diff of each commit was emailed to the developers. If anyone had a comment or question,…

Chris Wanstrath
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Service Integration

We heard you loud and clear that you wanted to integrate GitHub with your existing services without having to setup a custom post-receive service. Now, when you go to your…

PJ Hyett
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We Launched

GitHub is officially live. Thanks for the awesome beta everyone. While you can sign up or upgrade your account now, it'll be one week (April 17th) before we start enforcing…

Chris Wanstrath
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New to Git? Cheat!

Learning Git is not the easiest thing in the world. There are a ton of commands, many of which have multiple personalities. What's an aspiring hacker to do? The same…

Chris Wanstrath
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Back to Subversion

Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it's now reality. You may have noticed things have…

Chris Wanstrath