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You can now test post-receive hooks by viewing the “edit” page of your repository. This’ll fire off a similar payload to the one your post-receive URL will receive on a…

mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either – mrdon’s solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…

The new post-receive API is live. The guide has been updated to reflect the change.

Repositories can be renamed via their edit page. Users can be renamed via their account page. That is all.

Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru” has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…

A post I wrote about applying 37signals’ Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…

In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you’re at either of these events stop by and say hi.…

Everyone’s favorite Git magician, Scott Chacon, recently released an awesome new resource for everything Git: http://git-scm.com/ In addition to Scott’s Gitcasts, our new Guides homepage, and other existing Git resources,…

In an effort to make everyone’s Git and GitHub experience a little easier, we’re currently working on overhauling our guides. The first step was to replace the existing guides homepage…

Okay, this is obvious: you can now embed gists directly into your website, blog, project overview, myspace page, whatever. Your browser does not support IFrames I’ve personally wanted this for…

The original ssh public key interface left a lot to be desired. It’s was bulky, unintuitive, and altogether a pain to manage if you had lots of public keys. With…

Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy – A great guide for beginners Git for designers – No knowledge of…

bryanl has posted a video explaining Gist. Check it out! BryanL demos Gist: A Super Hot Pastebin from Bryan Liles on Vimeo.

Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We’d love versioning. We’d love SSL on our private pastes.…

GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…