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Until now, whenever you pushed a modified gemspec to a repository that is gem enabled, we rebuilt it, no questions asked. This was convenient if you needed to fix a…

…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were. For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page. …

And we’re back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!…

Nerd Merit Badges has their first badge on the way, and guess who it is.  That’s right: our very own Octocat! You can enter your email address or follow…

 Neat. Update Forker Dustin Sallings has some more punch card fun.

We won! Thanks for voting everyone, we (obviously) could not have done this without you.   Here’s the full list of winners. Thanks for a great 2008!

We just rolled out a security fix that puts all wikis under the @wiki.github.com@ subdomain. This means they can execute arbitrary JavaScript (like scriptaculous does, or maybe the Lighthouse Badge)…

In December, the Gnome team did a survey of its contributors about which DVCS they might be interested in moving to in 2009. The GNOME DVCS Survey Results are now…

2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…

Since GitHub will be in Europe at the end of March (23-29), if any of our European friends are interested in Git training, please let us know so we can…

This March, GitHub is coming to Europe. We’re planning on hitting the ApacheCon for a few days in Amsterdam to meet some of our continental friends, then flying up to…

I’m taking this week off from Rebase, but I figured I would let everyone know the criteria for getting featured. I’ve created a page that elaborates on the process I…

GitHub was nominated by TechCrunch in the ‘Best Bootstrapped Startup’ category for their 2008 Crunchie awards. Please help us out by voting for GitHub You can vote once per day.…

Everyone’s favorite SSS Is it Christmas is hosted right here on GitHub.  The code is fairly interesting, with a bit of localization and geolocating going on. Check it out!

We’ve begun to revamp the GitHub homepage to more accurately reflect what we’re all about. The first step of this redesign was to more prominently feature our private code hosting…