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Everyone’s favorite Ruby-centric news blog, Ruby Inside, has posted a venerable who’s who of GitHub-hosted Ruby projects for August 2008. Thanks Zach – time for the Lispers, Pythonistas, and Java…

Want to show off the most recent commit to a project? How about the latest commits across multiple projects? heipei has the answer: github-commit-badge  See a demo. Thanks heipei!

You asked for them and we listened. We now have two GitHub shirt designs for sale via rubyrags.com! The one and only, classic “Fork You” shirt is sure to turn…

The keynote I gave at the Ruby Hoedown a few weekends ago has just been posted. View the video or read the transcript. While it’s not directly related to Git,…

vanpelt at the SF JS Meetup.

We just rolled out a new feature that allows you to activate an auto-response to any pull requests you receive. Here’s a few use cases that make this a pretty…

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Two nights ago, jnunemaker headed on a motorcycle ride to the Mackinac bridge in northern Michigan. GitHub led the way.


There have been a fair amount of requests for this feature and we were happy to oblige. If you click the “Update Credit Card” link on your account page, there’s…

Called the “next killer app for Ruby,” Adhearsion has moved to GitHub. Jay Phillips, creator of Adhearsion, has a great blog post explaining the move and discussing GitHub. From the…

From Wired’s Defcon images. Update: We have a positive ID on the forker: dustin

Want to show Gists on your Tumblr, like Eric does? Then check out his Gistr. Use it like so: $ gistr -e tumblr@email -p password -t post_title gist_id

Let’s say you’ve got a cool Gist you want to share, but don’t love the boring URL. No problem. Just use bit.ly. bit.ly is a URL shortener which lets you…

The flogic guys have a great write up detailing their setup. They go into detail on how to setup a local mirror to use when deploying your app. Here’s a…