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[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…

A month or so ago Tom and Chris sat down with the Web 2.0 Show while they were here in San Francisco. The episode is now online. Check it out…

In the past month I’ve done a lot of traveling. Traveling means noodling – lots of topic branches laying around from airplane rides and hotel hacking. Today I decided to…

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Alliteration is fun isn’t it? Our friends at Pledgie busted out their css wizardry to restyle your project’s profiles to give them a more consistent…

Hey everyone, meet Matt Pruitt (aka guitsaru). He’s going to help us out on the support front – mailing list, email, and Lighthouse. With Matt’s help, we’ll have more time…

One of my favorite people uses the MooTools Javascript framework and noticed something on the framework’s website: That’s right, MooTools development now happens at GitHub. Yet another awesome project has…

Before today, when you pushed your gemspec to GitHub the only way you knew whether or not your gem built successfully is if it showed up on our server. Not…

Carlos Brando and Marcos Tapajós have written a book on Rails 2.1 in Portuguese which is now being translating into English – right here on GitHub! If you want to…

Liftweb, the hot Scala (a functional, JVM language) web framework, is now hosted on GitHub. Be sure to check out the demo or follow their Twitter if you’re interested. The…

The 350 GitHub t-shirts we gave away at RailsConf 2008 last weekend were a huge hit! For anyone that wasn’t there, the fronts say “fork you” and the backs say…

Yan Pritzker thinks GitHub is leading an open source renaissance. Duh! This very simple idea of tracking the forking network of a particular project, and doing it well, is why…