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Super Awesome Search

We just rolled out our new and improved search. It's way better. Try out this search for git to see what I mean. It searches across repository names, descriptions, and…

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Check Your Usage

Hey, wondering how much disk space you're using? Check your account page to find out. Usage is updated every time you push. As for me, I've got around 30 repositories…

Chris Wanstrath
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Git Support for Rails Plugins

Installing a Rails plugin from GitHub is now as simple as: ./script/plugin install git://github.com/pjhyett/auto_migrations.git Sweet! Thanks to all involved for making it happen, the changeset is here. Now, to figure…

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The Pricing Plans

Ever since announcing that public projects are free, people have been asking about our pricing plans. The moment of truth has arrived. Details are here: http://github.com/plans Update: We've added an…

Chris Wanstrath
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The API

As announced on the mailing list, we just pushed out our API. The API documentation has more information. Basically: http://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt/github-gem/commits/master There's json, xml, and yaml. You can grab a list…

Chris Wanstrath
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Markdown’d, Textile’d Readmes

Any READMEs ending in @.markdown@ or @.textile@ will now be displayed using the proper filter. Take Josh's here, for instance. Sexy. Update: We speak RDoc now, too. Use the @.rdoc@…

Chris Wanstrath
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Popular Repos

Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore. Wondering what's hot on GitHub? Wonder no further. We just pushed out the popular forked and popular watched charts. They'll be updated…

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GitHub Google Group

GitHub Google Group

We now have a Google Group for discussions. Use it to ask questions, talk about ideas, whatever. We'll see you there. http://groups.google.com/group/github/

Chris Wanstrath
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Token Private Feeds

Apparently some of the more popular feed readers can't handle HTTP authentication, SSL feeds, or a combination of the two. No matter! GitHub private feeds are now accessible via a…

Chris Wanstrath
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Tarball Downloads

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another…

Chris Wanstrath
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GitHub: Free for Open Source

Lately people have been asking about our pricing plan. While we're not ready to reveal it quite yet, we are ready to talk about one aspect of it: GitHub will…

Chris Wanstrath
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The GitHub Changelog

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Just like Facebook and FriendFeed, we're now showing off our commit log. Not every change merits a blog post, y'know?

Chris Wanstrath
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Multiple Emails!

You can now add multiple emails to your account using the, uh, account link. And hey, are your commits not being linked to your GitHub account? Here's why: the most…

Chris Wanstrath
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hCardy Profiles

We added a 'profile' link to your badge tonight, giving you easy access to your public profile. It's, more or less, what everyone else sees. To go with it, we…

Chris Wanstrath
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Activity Feeds Are Go

Activity feeds are now active. Three, in particular: events for you, events from you, and public events from you. The private feeds are protected with HTTP authentication. You need to…

Chris Wanstrath