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GitHub Rebase #39

Welcome to GitHub Rebase #39! Just remember, git rot is a unique two-part liquid epoxy that saturates and restores original strength to wood by penetrating the rot. Not necessary to…

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Pro Git Bloggin’

Our very own international man of mystery Scott Chacon has been blogging some great blogs over at the Pro Git site recently: Undoing Merges Smart HTTP Transport Rerere Your Boat…

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phpBB on GitHub

The phpBB team recently completed a move from SVN to Git and are now hosting their repositories on GitHub! I remember phpBB being one of my first experiences with online…

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GitHub Rebase #38

Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here. In the meantime, check out this preview of some neat visualizations using the…

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NCSA Mosaic on GitHub

This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic. img http://img.skitch.com/20100308-pw11fgabs4ukqf89c29dy6wipn.png http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic This now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects. (Hat tip flangy)

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Branch Lists

Git’s branching model is one of it’s best features. Branches are cheap, fast and extremely flexible. They’re great for developing features, maintaining old releases, or just plain experimentation. If you…

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GitHub Rebase #37

According to git-checkout(1): “You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD”. Git is your Friend, not a Foe explains how this is possible.…

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New Languages Highlighted

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File upload improvements

Ever since we introduced the file upload section for repos, the two requests we’ve received the most have been for a no-flash alternative and download stats. Today we’re introducing both.…

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Introducing status.github.com

Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…

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