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We recently rolled out a bunch of improvements to commit pages to make reviewing diffs a bit more pleasant. Diffstats Diffstat style histograms of insertions and deletions for each file…

Happy 2010! Hope your new year is off to an amazing start. With the holidays behind us, we are ready to kick off another season of drinkups at home and…

See the archives and more over at rebase.github.com! Want in for the next rebase? As you can see, I’m a bit web biased today, but I’d love to get more…

It’s great to see more and more companies embracing open source. The latest to put their code on GitHub is Palm, with repos related to their webOS product. They join…

Ruby has Gemcutter, Python has Pypi, and now PHP has Pearhub! img http://img.skitch.com/20100108-j2gtgapb9a1s11fqeukw6tqfdt.png http://pearhub.org Whether your project is hosted on GitHub or somewhere else, Pearhub makes it easy to publish.…

It is now possible to completely bypass Jekyll processing on GitHub Pages by creating a file named .nojekyll in the root of your pages repo and pushing it to GitHub.…

We just pushed out an updated header design for all repository pages, you can see it in action on any of our project pages The new headers fixed some long…

“Hey, why isn’t anyone working this week?!” Actually, they’re working hard. It’s the Service Hooks that took the week off. 37signals released a Campfire API which requires you to provide…

Since we launched Issues so many months ago, many users have asked for a way to see all the issues spread across all their repos. We don’t have a page…

What you want another drinkup? Fine, but this is the last one for the year. Primarily because the next slated drinkup Thursday would fall on December 31st, and if you…

Want to see your project on Rebase? Check out the howto! I also seem to be running short of interesting Git images as well. If you see any, and given…

Ever wonder how many different people contribute to a project on average, or how many commits the average contributor is responsible for? What about the size of the average patch…

This week I released hub, a command line script which adds GitHub knowledge to a few git subcommands. For example, clone: $ hub clone cytzol/cope Initialized empty Git repository in…

CakePHP, one of the most popular PHP application development frameworks, has just moved to GitHub (github.com/cakephp). You can read about the move at the Bakery. We welcome you, CakePHPers!

Yesterday YDN unveiled their new BrowserPlus developer portal and released the BrowserPlus Platform source code on GitHub: http://github.com/browserplus/platform img http://img.skitch.com/20091209-qnrjr5e6x4e8i721fcf6ug2b1j.png http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/12/browserplus_source_code_available_now_on_github.html They’ve also added additional repositories to the @browserplus user…