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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…

Last week we released a feature for hosting your custom websites for your projects that we call ‘GitHub Pages’. For personal repositories, the process is easy enough – just create…

For those of you who had not heard, Perl has moved its 20 year source code history for Perl 5 from Perforce to Git (also, the bird is in fact…

The middle of December has brought us a few feet of snow and the return of graphs! I’m looking for new ways to show off the ridiculous amount of data…

As a special holiday treat, we’re putting all of our remaining shirt stock on sale. You can now get Fork You for $18.00 USD and All Your Rebase for $16.00…

With the rollout of GitHub Pages, why not show the world that you collaborate on GitHub? I’ve prepared these ribbons that you can overlay on your site by copying and…

GitHub Pages allow you to publish web content to a github.com subdomain named after your username. With Pages, publishing web content becomes as easy as pushing to your GitHub repository.…

You’ve created a repo on GitHub, written a bunch of great code, and now it’s time to push it: Here’s what happens on GitHub now: Along with the create events,…

I would like to introduce you to the Fork Queue, the first of two big features that rolled out today. As of a few minutes ago, everybody should now have…

Welcome to the 8th version of Rebase! I had some issues generating the stats this week, but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of activity and new projects that I’ve got…

We all love stats and graphs, and I especially love bringing them to you. So without further ado I present the long asked for traffic graph for each and every…

Facebook just released their memcached fork. The enhancements are explained in this note. Since we’ve made all these changes, we have been able to scale memcached to handle 200,000 UDP…

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!