Repo Deletion for Everyone
Here’s our latest feature: Did ya spot it? It’s the delete button! No, we’re not crazy. Prior to today, if you had a project that had been forked, you were…
Here’s our latest feature: Did ya spot it? It’s the delete button! No, we’re not crazy. Prior to today, if you had a project that had been forked, you were…
It’s true, GitHub goes down. But this is not centralized version control land – GitHub going down does not have to stop you from committing to or deploying your code…
We’ve just added site-wide token based authentication. You can find your API token in your account page, front and center. Simply pass login and token to any URL which requires…
David Baldwin has said goodbye to WordPress and started using GitHub as his blog. Go see for yourself: github.com/bilson/blog I love seeing novel uses of git and GitHub and this…
Edit: these features are no longer available. To go along with our new language graphs we’ve added some site-wide language pages. First, the top languages in GitHub as used by…
Double plus update: Check out our help documentation for full details on importing from SVN. Update: There have been reports of hanging on the import authors page and the import…
The flogic guys have a great write up detailing their setup. They go into detail on how to setup a local mirror to use when deploying your app. Here’s a…
You can now test post-receive hooks by viewing the “edit” page of your repository. This’ll fire off a similar payload to the one your post-receive URL will receive on a…
mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either – mrdon’s solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…
Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru” has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…
GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…
Files in your repository are now formatted same as the README. This means if you have a file with a @.markdown@ extension, for example, it’ll show up all pretty-like. Enjoy.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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