Today’s Downtime
Earlier today, we received an alert from our monitoring system that a disk in our active MySQL server’s RAID10 array had started to clock up some media errors. Being a…
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New and Improved Service Hook Payloads
The service hook payloads now have the following new fields: distinct=true for commits that are new to the repository created=true for new branches deleted=true for branch deletions base=NAME for the…
git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo
Thanks to rodjek and technoweenie the trailing “.git” is now optional when cloning GitHub repos using SmartHTTP: $ git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo Cloning into endo… remote: Counting objects: 6, done. remote:…
GitHub Drinkup, Paris Edition
It’s that time again. Sorry for the short notice Parisians, but tomorrow night (Friday, March 4) I will be hosting a drinkup at Patricks Irish Pub in Paris. A bunch…
A Little Hand Holding Goes A Long Way
Git is pretty awesome, right? Of course I’m right. If you didn’t think so, you wouldn’t be here. The trick is, Git is pretty damn confusing if you’ve never used…
Still Committing Like Crazy
About a year ago, I wrote a post talking about the avalanche of commits coming into GitHub. That Tuesday, GitHub received 33,154 pushes containing 109,290 commits. An insane number to…
PyCon US 2011 Ticket Winners
$ python raffle.py And the winners are… *drumroll* graffic and dryan! Congrats to graffic and dryan! We’ll see you at PyCon 2011.
Win a Ticket to PyCon US 2011!
PyCon 2011 is fast approaching and we’re giving away two free tickets to the conference. Want one? Just fork github/pycon2011 and we’ll randomly select two winners this Friday, February 25th.…
Threaded Email Notifications
Over the weekend we rolled out a few changes to email notifications to better take advantage of your mail reader’s ability to group messages into conversations and threads: Here’s what’s…
Octocat Nerd Merit Badges For Sale
Nerd Merit Badges bring the fun of collecting merit badges to those of us with a penchant for late night coding sessions and weekends poring over esoteric nerd folklore. Get…
10% off Tower for Mac
Today Tower, the most powerful Git client for Mac, was officially released. The best part? Use coupon code GITHUB10 to get 10% off until March 15th, 2011. Or, just click…
NYC Drinkup Tomorrow (Tues 15)
GitHub is in New York City and tomorrow night at 9pm we’re sponsoring the drinks at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference at the Sheraton in midtown. Please stop by…
Introducing the File Finder
Back when I started using TextMate, its cmd-T file finder completely changed the way I browse and read code. When I switched to Janus last year, it was only because…
GitHub Meetup SF #25
Join us for a meetup at the Edinburgh Castle Pub! Thats PUB. Not the castle. In SAN FRANCISCO. Not in the United Kingdom. Sorry to our lovely UK users- we’ll…
Boulder Talks and Drinkup this Thursday, Feb 10
I will be in Boulder on Thursday, February 10th giving talks at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and BLUG (Boulder Linux User’s Group). The BLUG talk will be titled…
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