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The library
A comprehensive archive with older product announcements, company updates, guides, tutorials, and other blogs from GitHub. Consider the library a repository of historical GitHub information where you can explore the evolution of GitHub’s tools and features over time (like the pull request!).
Announcing GitHub for Mac
Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you’ve pushed your code to GitHub.…
API v3: 190 methods to build on
The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We…
Kiwi PyCon Ticket Give-Away
We have an extra ticket for Kiwi PyCon! The conference is in the lovely Wellington, NZ in late August. If you’re interested in going, just fork this gist and answer…
GitHub Services Get an Upgrade
We deployed a big change to GitHub Services this week. The code is now clearer, more consistent, and better tested (thanks to Faraday). We also recently added support for Redmine,…
Learning Is Sexy
As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we’ve revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we’ve…
Repo Transfers
We’ve just opened up access to a feature we’ve been brewing for some time now… transferring repositories between accounts! While we’ve actually had this capability for a few months now,…
New Users, Repos, and Orgs API
Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…
Online Git Training next Monday
It is that time once again! Next Monday, June 13, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or…
Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow @ 20:00 PST
The site will be down for maintenance tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 8, 2011) at 20:00 PST. We’ll be restarting a couple redis servers to increase limits. Total downtime shouldn’t exceed…
GitHub Drinkup SF #27
It’s almost the second Thursday of the month, you know what that means… another drinkup. All of you visiting for WWDC should come and experience a drinkup on our home…
Who is GitHub, anyway?
The statute of limitations have finally expired for a few nefarious deeds committed by GitHub employees, so our crack team of lawyers admitted we could finally build a long-overdue shiny…
GitHub Drinkup, Amsterdam – June 3
A few of us (@tmm1, @atmos, @sr, @defunkt) are in Amsterdam this week. We will be at the amsterdam.rb meetup at 17:00, followed by drinks at De Bekeerde Suster around…
GitHub Dominates the Forges
Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk, a tech analyst firm, gave a presentation this morning entitled Survival of the Forges wherein he compared the four main software forges: Sourceforge, Google Code, GitHub,…
Announcing PyCodeConf 2011
CodeConf 2011 was a massive success, but it was just the start. Today we’re proud to present our second conference, focused on the future of Python: PyCodeConf 2011 Tickets and…
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