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One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let’s open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…

The Download button is now supercharged. It gives you the option to download a Zip version of the repository and suggests other downloads – recent tags, basically – giving people…

After open sourcing the GitHub services code, we’ve been just floored with the number of pull requests for adding tons of functionality. We launched the service hooks with just Campfire…

Even if you’re a Git master, Zack Rusin’s Git Cheat Sheet may prove useful. It’s got a whole lotta commands ready for cheatin’. Thanks Zack!

It’s here for the faceboxes – I’m so sick of seeing people guess wrong about the formatting. Really, it makes me sad. Coming soon everywhere else.

Now that it’s so easy to install gems, we figured that you should know when a repository offers a gem install. So, that’s what we did: If you see a…

We’re working on some awesome new visualizations and statistics here at GitHub. While they’re not quite ready to roll out, there is one chart I wanted to share. These are…

If you aren’t using the GitHub gem, then perhaps “webmat’s”:webmat git_remote_branch may interest you. The aim of the micro-project can best be summed up with a quote: I believe the…

For the folks trying to install a RubyGem via GitHub prior to yesterday’s release, you’d get the all too familiar “Updating metadata for 563 gems…” every time. Well no more,…

You’ve problem seen Cheat by way of the Git cheat sheet. Yeah, it rocks. Well guess what – the industrious Robin took it a step forward and wrote a Git-backed…

[Slant](http://github.com/slant) caught forking some food. Got any ‘Fork You’ spottings? “Hit me”:mailto:chris@logicalawesome.com.

You can now clone public repositories hosted on GitHub over HTTP. This is very slow and should only be used if the git port (9418) is blocked due to a…

cschneid and friends are working on a Sinatra book using Git and GitHub. Anyone can join in. They join the growing number of people using Git and GitHub to write…

Site feel slow? See a weird SSH message? Have a strange feeling in your gut? Wonder no longer – check out the GitHub Status Blog to see service related news…

Big weekend. HiveDB, the “open source framework for horizontally partitioning MySQL systems”, is moving to GitHub. They’re moving because Git rocks and so does GitHub. Sounds good to me. Check…