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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 (including…

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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.gitSweet! Thanks to all involved for making it happen, the changeset is here.Now, to figure out gem support…

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Serious Bug Tracking

We’ve moved our bug tracking and feature requests to Lighthouse.Thanks to the ActiveReload guys for making a great product.UpdateWith the launch of our new issue tracker, our trackers on Lighthouse…

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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/plansUpdate: We’ve added an FAQ section…

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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 of…

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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Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore.Wondering what’s hot on GitHub?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 nightly…

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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…

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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…

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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 recent…

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Myspace for hackers?

rtomayko says GitHub is ‘Myspace for Hackers‘ over on his blog. Flattering, yes, but read closely: this dude gets it.From his post: “Pull requests” happen every day over email without…

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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…

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