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Update regarding require, please read below The next time you visit your repository’s edit screen you’ll see a new checkbox that should be pretty exciting for users hosting their RubyGem…

GitHub hit a major milestone the other day, surpassing its millionth event. Events are those helpful things that show up in your dashboard, letting you know when someone makes a…

…is coming soon. But we need your help! Please send us any Git or GitHub related questions so we can answer them on the show. You can ask questions via…

Speaking of GitHub as a Fluid App, I’ve whipped up a better icon. This one looks nicer in the dock and doesn’t get lost if you have a dark desktop…

Welp, I finally upgraded to Leopard today. And you know what that means… Fluid! Now that I can run standalone GitHub, I thought it would be fun to play with…

It’s almost that time. If you’re seeing the message below, please head to your account page and either upgrade your plan or take the steps necessary to limit your usage…

Repository collaborator permissions are coming very soon. You’ll be able to give someone read, write, or admin access to your repository. To prepare for that, we’ve added an “Admin” tab…

Some people are wondering what will happen to their private repositories next Thursday if they exceed their plan’s limit. Well, they’ll simply become inaccessible. You should clone and delete them…

In the past, maybe 100 years ago, I worked at a company where the diff of each commit was emailed to the developers. If anyone had a comment or question,…

We heard you loud and clear that you wanted to integrate GitHub with your existing services without having to setup a custom post-receive service. Now, when you go to your…

GitHub is officially live. Thanks for the awesome beta everyone. While you can sign up or upgrade your account now, it’ll be one week (April 17th) before we start enforcing…

Our goal here at GitHub is to break down the barriers that normally impede collaboration. One of the biggest challenges that we face as developers is keeping track of what…

Want to use GitHub with Fluid? We got you covered. Here’s a massive octocat for superb dock action.

Know how to add changes to a previous commit? Commit only part of a changed file? Change the message of a commit 30 commits ago? If not, check out Ryan…