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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!).

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Block the Bullies

GitHub has always been about collaboration: we want to make it easy for you to work with other people to build great software. Whether that’s a co-worker sitting next to…

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GitHub Drinkup, Berlin – May 29th

A few of us (@tmm1, @sr, @atmos) are in Berlin this weekend for EuRuKo and we’d like to invite our Berlin users out for drinks. Sunday evening after the conference…

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GitHub Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner on Founder.LY

A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with the guys from Founder.LY. We talked about GitHub, strategies for early stage startups, and a bit of my background.…

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Gist creation in 5 lines with Java v3 API

As part of the Mylyn connector announcement last week a new stand-alone Java library was released for accessing GitHub API v3. Below is a 5 line example showing how to…

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GitHub Reflog v1.5.16

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Thanks to the awesome work…

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GitHub at RailsConf Baltimore

We’ll be out in Baltimore next week, RailsConf’in around town, catchin’ some rays by the harbor, seein’ the sights. Did you know Baltimore.org says “Baltimore-it’s not so much a place…

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Scheduled Maintenance Saturday @ 22:00 PDT

The site will be down for maintenance this weekend (Saturday, May 14, 2011) starting at 22:00 PDT for a MySQL upgrade. We expect the outage to last only a few…

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GitHub Meetup SF #26

Join us this Thursday at Thirsty Bear for what will perhaps become an annual tradition of Thirsty Bear meetups. Those of you who were there last year probably know why,…

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GitHub Mylyn connector for Eclipse

This week marks the initial alpha release of the GitHub Mylyn connector for Eclipse. If you are unfamiliar with the Mylyn project, it is a set of plug-ins that adds…

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GitHub Drinkup Verona, Italy – Fri, May 13

I’ll be in Verona, Italy this Friday during phpDay 2011 and jsDay 2011. If you’re in the area or at one of the conferences, come have a beer on GitHub…

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Seattle/Redmond Drinkup on Sat, May 7

If you’re in the Seattle area, we’re doing a drinkup in Bellevue, WA (in-between Seattle and Redmond) tomorrow night – Saturday, May 7th at 7pm. Tim and I will be…

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GitHub Drinkup Cambridge – Mon, May 2

GitHub is in town again and wants to buy you some beer at John Harvards once again! Be there at 7pm or so and we’ll keep the pitchers a-coming. tl;dr:…

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New Issues and Gist API

One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…

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Forking with the Edit Button

You’ve been able to edit files in repositories you own on GitHub for years. But today, we’ve improved the workflow for this functionality. You can now edit files in repositories…

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GitHub Drinkup, Amsterdam

A bunch of us are heading over to Amsterdam for Puppet Camp EU this week. We’ll be co-hosting conference drinks at Cafe The News with Optiver around 21:00 on Thursday…

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