The latest blogs from GitHub

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…

Please welcome @qrush (Nick Quaranto) to the core Jekyll team (now consisting of the two of us)! img http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb8975af8e49e19e3dd6b6b84a542e26?s=200 He’ll be helping me keep Jekyll active and awesome by assisting…

Amanda developer @djmitche writes: I’m a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We’re…

@mojombo, @pjhyett and I will be doing a panel at Open Source Bridge in June on Bootstrapping Your Open Source Business. img http://opensourcebridge.org/badges/submit240.png http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/270 It looks like it’ll be a…

img http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/images/gfm.png The move to GitHub Flavored Markdown for all messages and comments on the site is now complete! Any comments or messages created after 2009-04-20 19:00:00 UTC will be…

As soon as we rolled out version 2 of the API, people started building things with it. Here are some interesting Issues based projects: img http://img.skitch.com/20090420-bwyj4aat2skhi4dstbeu8jum17.jpg lighthouse-to-github – Lighthouse to…

Sorry about the missed weeks here folks, hopefully I’ll be back on track now. Let’s get started! Featured Project canary has generated quite a buzz on Twitter this past week…

I wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the stickers we offered a while ago. Tom asked you to email him if you were interested in some stickers…

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,…

Say hello to Melissa, everyone. She tweets as @luckiestmonkey, tumbles at http://luckiestmonkey.tumblr.com, codes as @luckiestmonkey, and now works for GitHub! img http://img.skitch.com/20090417-gtrdta222aruyhyuhjm8gcj5c1.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/3130143200 She’ll help us run our growing business,…

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…

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…

Everyone’s favorite @davglass has released his YUI Git helper to make contributing to the YUI suite of repositories even easier. The wiki does a great job of documenting the script…

Six Apart, the company behind TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, and other services, has begun open sourcing code on GitHub as @sixapart. img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-jt2m3dksnxejdmyrsfiscs7wqr.png http://github.com/sixapart They join @37signals, @digg, @yahoo, @techcrunch,…

@pcalcado has posted a simple Clojure app that runs on Google App Engine at http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate. img http://img.skitch.com/20090413-xg183ghfpi1tqcix2iwcct2h92.png http://github.com/pcalcado/my-best-mate He’s also written a blog post explaining much about App Engine and…

The code for Planet Scala is now hosted on GitHub. @DRMacIver explains the rationale behind the move: I really don’t care about the web frontend. As far as I’m concerned,…

Michael Foord has written a great blog post summarizing some the recent progress @devhawk (Harry Pierson) has made on the IronPython debugger front. Check it out: Further Adventures of the…

GitHub officially launched one year ago. img http://img.skitch.com/20090410-1au52x6f4c1e4qrudkim7g6e3.png Thanks for a great first year, everyone! I’d also like to give a special thanks to @mojombo, @pjhyett, @schacon, @tekkub, and @qrush…

The tiny robots over at Thoughtbot have just released a new feature for Hoptoad, the app error app. Exceptions that pop up now link back to the source tree at…

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…

The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at http://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement. img http://img.skitch.com/20090403-hr3ngqymfe34s217b2dejd29e.png http://github.com/etexteditor/e It was open sourced as part…