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Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it's now reality.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…
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Easily Install the FF GitHub Search
Thanks to @VxJasonxV you can now install the GitHub Firefox easy-search from any page on our site: Search away.
Search GitHub in Firefox
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Control Git with Gestures
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
Markdown’d, Textile’d Readmes
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@…
Popular Repos
Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore.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…
GitHub Google Group
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/
Token Private Feeds
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…
Downtime Tonight
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.
Hackers Agree: GitHub Rocks
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…
Tarball Downloads
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…
GitHub: Free for Open Source
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…
The GitHub Changelog
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?