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Google Code had an anniversary today and they mentioned some of their stats. There was one in particular that I thought was pretty interesting: Today, there are more than 240,000…

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…

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…

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…

We log a message to Campfire anytime someone deploys code to staging or production. It looks like this: Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you…

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…

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)

It’s about time – the GitHub drinkup is moving to the peninsula! One week only, don’t miss out! If you’re a peninsula dweller like me, join me at CityPub in…

Picking up where Kyle left off in his Branch List post, we’re all very excited to announce a new feature designed to ease the process of comparing two points in…

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…

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.…

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub’s sharded file server architecture. As a reminder,…

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You may think that the location of this weeks drinkup is a subtle way to cast in our lot with a particular side of the age old conundrum, ‘Pirates or…

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.…