Supercharged Downloads
The Download button is now supercharged. It gives you the option to download a Zip version of the repository and suggests other downloads - recent tags, basically - giving people…
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RubyGem Info
Now that it's so easy to install gems, we figured that you should know when a repository offers a gem install. So, that's what we did: If you see a…
Cheat + Git = Chit
You've problem seen Cheat by way of the Git cheat sheet. Yeah, it rocks. Well guess what - the industrious Robin took it a step forward and wrote a Git-backed…
Gem Builder Feedback
Before today, when you pushed your gemspec to GitHub the only way you knew whether or not your gem built successfully is if it showed up on our server. Not…
Getting Paid the Open Source Way
Update: We've discontinued this feature. If you'd like to accept donations, paste your pledgie code directly into your README (we'll display the image for you). This afternoon we're rolling out…
GitHub Services IPO
No, we're not listed on the NASDAQ (yet), but we are open-sourcing the code that handles our service integration with the likes of Twitter, Campfire, Lighthouse, etc. We realized there's…
It’s a mirror
Looks like jakobo had some hard drive troubles this weekend. Ouch. Luckily, thanks to backups and GitHub, he didn't lose much. I did a fresh install upgrade from Tiger to…
GitHub’s RubyGem Server
Update regarding require, please read below The next time you visit your repository's edit screen you'll see a new checkbox that should be pretty exciting for users hosting their RubyGem…
One Million Events
GitHub hit a major milestone the other day, surpassing its millionth event. Events are those helpful things that show up in your dashboard, letting you know when someone makes a…
Limits are coming…
It's almost that time. If you're seeing the message below, please head to your account page and either upgrade your plan or take the steps necessary to limit your usage…
Commit Comments
In the past, maybe 100 years ago, I worked at a company where the diff of each commit was emailed to the developers. If anyone had a comment or question,…
Service Integration
We heard you loud and clear that you wanted to integrate GitHub with your existing services without having to setup a custom post-receive service. Now, when you go to your…
Say hello to the Network Graph Visualizer
Our goal here at GitHub is to break down the barriers that normally impede collaboration. One of the biggest challenges that we face as developers is keeping track of what…
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…
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…
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…
One Thousand Strong
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,…
Activity Feeds Are Go
Activity feeds are now active. Three, in particular: events for you, events from you, and public events from you. The private feeds are protected with HTTP authentication. You need to…
Hotkeys and Wikis
Hey everyone, welcome to GitHub. Keep your feedreader pointed here for daily updates on new features, bug fixes, and general gitbauchery. First up: we just enabled hotkeys for trees and…