The latest blogs from GitHub

Old school GitHub user ivey has posted his Git Workflow. It covers small teams, large teams, and has a few tasty nuggets of knowledge thrown into the mix.  Thanks…

Parasite is a Firebug-like tool for debugging and tinkering with running GTK+ applications, hosted right here on GitHub.  From the page: You can actually modify your application logic while…

technicalpickles, author of jeweler, has posted a tutorial on his blog: Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler.  Check it out for info on how to build your own GitHub…

Now you’ll always know! technoweenie and seaofclouds have joined forces to bring us isLOSTonyet.com and isBSGonyet.com. More shows to come, they promise.  The code to both sites is hosted…

We’ve removed the Watchers tab (for good this time) and replaced it with a dedicated button in the Repo Details box. You’ll also see the number of forks the repo…

We’re now appending the gist name at the end of its raw url. That means it’s dead-simple to serve greasemonkey (or greasekit) scripts directly from gist.github.com. I was able to…

Sexy Curls is a pretty cool JavaScript effect. You can see it in action on their page.  The repo is available on GitHub.

Git ready, git set… go! Git ready is on fire, serving daily git tips for “the noob to the guru.”  Today’s tip? The staging area. Great job qrush!

This is pretty great (and thorough): An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows.  Thanks nathanj!

YUI2 and YUI3 now join YUIDoc on GitHub.  Welcome! You can read the blog announcement with all the details.

Henrik has a great article explaining why and how to display Git’s dirty state status (along with the branch, of course) in your bash prompt. topfunky prefers a skull and…

Dustin is on fire. His newest trick? GitHub Sync. Use it to track a user’s GitHub projects. All of them. Once [the sync] finishes, you will have all of my…

Until now, whenever you pushed a modified gemspec to a repository that is gem enabled, we rebuilt it, no questions asked. This was convenient if you needed to fix a…

…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were. For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page. …

And we’re back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!…

Nerd Merit Badges has their first badge on the way, and guess who it is.  That’s right: our very own Octocat! You can enter your email address or follow…

 Neat. Update Forker Dustin Sallings has some more punch card fun.

We won! Thanks for voting everyone, we (obviously) could not have done this without you.   Here’s the full list of winners. Thanks for a great 2008!

We just rolled out a security fix that puts all wikis under the @wiki.github.com@ subdomain. This means they can execute arbitrary JavaScript (like scriptaculous does, or maybe the Lighthouse Badge)…

In December, the Gnome team did a survey of its contributors about which DVCS they might be interested in moving to in 2009. The GNOME DVCS Survey Results are now…

2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…