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This week it’s Rebase Book Edition! There’s plenty of documentation projects going on at GitHub, and it’s about time they got some attention. Clone yourself a copy, head outside with…

We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…

We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository’s default branch, which isn’t necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.

Code Watch is now available on the App Store as a paid version which supports private repos and a free version for open source. img http://img.skitch.com/20090525-e9smww21a2bmcijeaincr2gqdb.png http://www.highorderbit.com/codewatch Check it out!

The GitHub Twilight Theme by @miksago is a way to make GitHub… dark. img http://img.skitch.com/20090519-sbqmt73aujis735e9t28xkne.png http://userstyles.org/styles/18041 Requires Firefox, Stylish, and Greasemonkey.

I’ve written a blog post over at my personal blog that you all may enjoy. It’s about learning git by looking at how a Git-like system could be built from…

Welcome back to Rebase! I’ve set up a new site as an archive for the column and the latest featured projects at http://rebase.github.com. I’d also like to thank everyone who’s…

RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it’ll take…

Are you part of a US city, state, or federal government organization that uses GitHub for your source hosting? Do you belong to a government-oriented non-profit that uses GitHub? Do…

@quirkey has written a great Guide to GitHub Pages, specifically on using the built-in Jekyll integration. img http://img.skitch.com/20090504-n4wr7imm2bk9de3w234c9qg167.png http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2009/05/01/github-pages-for-fun-and-win Check it out and start busting out some awesome documentation for…

Yet another Sunday, yet another Rebase! Featured Project compass makes CSS not suck. It’s a flexible CSS meta-framework that ties together the power of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) and…

Circa is a programming language designed for for rapid prototyping by @andyfischer. The intro page has some good information and the syntax example highlights some interesting ideas: — The @…

Have a nerdy writer in your life? Think they could benefit from version control? Point them at Flashbake by @commandline. Or, even better, point them at this Lifehacker article on…

‘Nuff said. Grab the code and check the README. img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-8ik7kuq27mn2rk6ni5thn5nmjq.png http://github.com/mattball/MBCoverFlowView Nicely done @mattball!

iOctocat is now available on the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/ioctocat @dbloete has written a blog post announcing it and promising some cool future features (like commit details). img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-fhj6p5benrh1h21ci62ik3bpas.png http://dbloete.github.com/ioctocat Naturally…