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Since forking a repository is so easy on GitHub, a number of people tend to do it thinking they want to play with the source, but then never actually push…

SproutCore 1.0 has been released! Check out the new CoreQuery which is the first step to making SproutCore JS-library agnostic. If you don’t know what SproutCore is, head over to…

Another good Git on Windows blog post. Don’t forgot about our Guide, either! 

Google Code Search now supports GitHub. From the announcement: For Git, we now crawl repositories hosted by several public git hosting sites including GitHub and repo.or.cz. In addition to that,…

That’s right! As mentioned in their YUIDoc announcement, Yahoo’s User Interface Library is now hosted publicly on GitHub at http://github.com/yui.  Be sure to check out the brand new YUILibrary…

A few months ago I started talking with the Pragmatic Programmers about doing some screencasts. At the time, I was doing the GitCasts series and was considering branching out into…

Everything else is on the web, why not your music player?  Oh and look, the code’s on GitHub.

Welcome to the seventh edition of Rebase! Starting this week I’ll be nominating a new repo to the “Featured Project” section on the front page, and explaining why I think…

Thanks to the pros at Engine Yard for helping us optimize more of our database queries. With a small team like ours, their support really makes a tangible difference. …

Poor Windows support has always been a big roadblock to Git adoption. The truth of the matter these days is that Windows support through msysGit is actually quite good. Git-Gui…

I wanted to follow up on the WhyGitIsBetterThanX project that I basically stopped working on the day it went live and am now spending a few minutes a day maintaining.…

Now when you log in to GitHub and visit the support site, you’ll be automatically logged in. No account? No worries – one will be automatically created.  Nice and…

Jason Adams has a blog post titled 10 Reasons to Use Git for Research. Know anyone working in an academic settings? They may want to check it out. Academic settings…

We still have a few Fork You and Rebase shirts left. They’re the perfect holiday gift!  (BTW I wear a medium…)

Why do I love GitHub? There are many reasons, even forgetting that they now employ me… One of the coolest ones, however, is the community. There are lots of hosting…