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We Launched

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Git Tricks

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Comparing Git to Mercurial

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Pushing and Pulling

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Get Some Shoes

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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New to Git? Cheat!

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Rails Moving to Git

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Back to Subversion

Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it's now reality.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

Chris Wanstrath
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Super Awesome Search

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Check Your Usage

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Nu and Io on GitHub

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Git Support for Rails Plugins

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…

PJ Hyett
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The Future of Coding

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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Serious Bug Tracking

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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The Pricing Plans

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…

Chris Wanstrath
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The API

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…

Chris Wanstrath