News & insights

As announced on the mailing list, we just pushed out our API. The API documentation has more information. Basically: http://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt/github-gem/commits/master There’s json, xml, and yaml. You can grab a list…

topfunky has an excellent post on using “gestures to control Git”. From the article: Swipe up to git push Swipe down to git pull Swipe left to see git status

Any READMEs ending in @.markdown@ or @.textile@ will now be displayed using the proper filter. Take Josh’s here, for instance. Sexy. Update: We speak RDoc now, too. Use the @.rdoc@…

Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore. Wondering what’s hot on GitHub? Wonder no further. We just pushed out the popular forked and popular watched charts. They’ll be updated…

We now have a Google Group for discussions. Use it to ask questions, talk about ideas, whatever. We’ll see you there. http://groups.google.com/group/github/

Apparently some of the more popular feed readers can’t handle HTTP authentication, SSL feeds, or a combination of the two. No matter! GitHub private feeds are now accessible via a…

We’ll have an hour or two of downtime tonight around midnight PST while the awesome dudes at Engine Yard upgrade our disk capacity. Thanks, see you on the flip side.

As the launch draws near I thought I’d share some awesome things people have been saying about the GH. What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social…

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another…

Lately people have been asking about our pricing plan. While we’re not ready to reveal it quite yet, we are ready to talk about one aspect of it: GitHub will…

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Just like Facebook and FriendFeed, we’re now showing off our commit log. Not every change merits a blog post, y’know?

You can now add multiple emails to your account using the, uh, account link. And hey, are your commits not being linked to your GitHub account? Here’s why: the most…

rtomayko says GitHub is ‘Myspace for Hackers‘ over on his blog. Flattering, yes, but read closely: this dude gets it. From his post: “Pull requests” happen every day over email…

We added a ‘profile’ link to your badge tonight, giving you easy access to your public profile. It’s, more or less, what everyone else sees. To go with it, we…

The first repository in the production db was created October 29th. The first private beta repository was created January 12th. The 1,000th repository was created today, Feburary 25th. (And yeah,…