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Catch the whole GitHub crew at the 2008 ZendCon in Santa Clara on September 16th and 17th! [](http://www.zendcon.com/ZendCon08/public/content/home) Stop by booth 304 if you’re attending and grab a t-shirt or…
Edit: these features are no longer available.To go along with our new language graphs we’ve added some site-wide language pages.First, the top languages in GitHub as used by public repositories.…
When do people usually commit to Rubinius?  What languages are used by gitbuilder?  Who committed how much to GitNub, and when?  Big thanks to Chris Neukirchen for…
Mozilla’s Ubiquity is pretty cool. We just pushed out support for commands in GistIf we detect that a Gist contains an Ubiquity command, we’ll add the proper markup to let…
An intrepid group of Philadelphia hackers will meet tomorrow at Higher Grounds to work on… well, whatever.From the info-repo: 1. First rule of cohackfest, no client* work 2. Second rule…
Double plus update: Check out our help documentation for full details on importing from SVN.Update: There have been reports of hanging on the import authors page and the import itself.…
Into Grails? Check out GrailsCrowd – the new Grails community site.Hosted right here on GitHub, they’ve already got over 750 registered members. Nice works guys. 
We now detect and display submodules making it easy to see what other code is being referenced via our web interface.  If the submodule points to a repo on…
 Bhavesh of Vinsol forking on a cycle rickshaw in New Delhi, India!
Please take a few minutes to fill out the 2008 Git User’s Survey.The Git community values this annual survey. By filling it out, you’re contributing to the superb open source…
Port 22 blocked from work? No problem! m4dc4p has the solution. Just check out his Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) blog post. At my workplace, a Microsoft…
Everyone’s favorite Ruby-centric news blog, Ruby Inside, has posted a venerable who’s who of GitHub-hosted Ruby projects for August 2008.Thanks Zach – time for the Lispers, Pythonistas, and Java beans…
Want to show off the most recent commit to a project? How about the latest commits across multiple projects? heipei has the answer: github-commit-badge  See a demo. Thanks heipei!
You asked for them and we listened. We now have two GitHub shirt designs for sale via rubyrags.com!The one and only, classic “Fork You” shirt is sure to turn heads.…
The keynote I gave at the Ruby Hoedown a few weekends ago has just been posted.View the video or read the transcript.While it’s not directly related to Git, I think…
We just rolled out a new feature that allows you to activate an auto-response to any pull requests you receive.Here’s a few use cases that make this a pretty cool…
Two nights ago, jnunemaker headed on a motorcycle ride to the Mackinac bridge in northern Michigan. GitHub led the way.
There have been a fair amount of requests for this feature and we were happy to oblige. If you click the “Update Credit Card” link on your account page, there’s…
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