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Dustin has posted a great article comparing Git to Mercurial. He’s obviously used both extensively and gives a level headed, interesting look at how they differ. Love the quote at…

Eric Goodwin has posted a short tutorial entitled Pushing and Pulling Branches on GitHub. It’s a must read if you’re interested in sharing work with your peers on a branch…

Last summer, before GitHub, I spent a lot of time playing with Shoes. Ruby has always been lacking in the GUI department and Shoes is a really smart, innovative, cross-platform…

Learning Git is not the easiest thing in the world. There are a ton of commands, many of which have multiple personalities. What’s an aspiring hacker to do? The same…

Ruby on Rails is moving to Git and GitHub. Super cool. I particularly like the comment from AkitaOnRails: Right now, everybody is playing catch-up with Git, Git-svn and Github, no…

Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it’s now reality. You may have noticed things have…

Thanks to @VxJasonxV you can now install the GitHub Firefox easy-search from any page on our site: Search away.

Do you feel a sense of longing, even loss, when away from GitHub? Ian Ownbey provides some help: a Firefox search plugin for GitHub. Never be more than a few…

We just rolled out our new and improved search. It’s way better. Try out this search for git to see what I mean. It searches across repository names, descriptions, and…

Hey, wondering how much disk space you’re using? Check your account page to find out. Usage is updated every time you push. As for me, I’ve got around 30 repositories…

Things have been quiet around here lately as we prepare for the launch. We’re doing a lot of work on the backend to ensure we will be stable and swift…

Installing a Rails plugin from GitHub is now as simple as: ./script/plugin install git://github.com/pjhyett/auto_migrations.git Sweet! Thanks to all involved for making it happen, the changeset is here. Now, to figure…

Rob Hudson and a few co-workers recently tried to build a full fledged Django app in 3 hours using Git and GitHub. Really, it’s a match made in heaven: an…

We’ve moved our bug tracking and feature requests to Lighthouse. Thanks to the ActiveReload guys for making a great product. Update With the launch of our new issue tracker, our…

Ever since announcing that public projects are free, people have been asking about our pricing plans. The moment of truth has arrived. Details are here: http://github.com/plans Update: We’ve added an…