Introducing GitHub Compare View
Picking up where Kyle left off in his Branch List post, we're all very excited to announce a new feature designed to ease the process of comparing two points in…
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GitHub Rebase #35
Rebase: good for reorganizing commits, squashing down changesets, and repairing dentures. Featured Project vanity is an experiment driven development framework for Ruby on Rails that uses A/B Testing to maximize…
Broadcasts
Over the past couple of days, you may have noticed a new piece of UI, GitHub broadcasts: We'll be using this feature to announce significant new feature additions and changes…
Random Repo
@joshthecoder said, "It'd be great to jump to a random repository on GitHub. Like the "Random article" feature on Wikipedia." I said, "Yes, it would." Tada: Random Repository Drag that…
GitHub Rebase #32
Want to see your project on Rebase? Check out the howto! I also seem to be running short of interesting Git images as well. If you see any, and given…
hub – git with github
This week I released hub, a command line script which adds GitHub knowledge to a few git subcommands. For example, clone: $ hub clone cytzol/cope Initialized empty Git repository in…
Erlang/OTP now on GitHub
img http://erlang.org/images/erlang-logo.png I'm pleased to announce that GitHub now hosts an official Git version of Erlang/OTP. The core Erlang team states: Beginning with this release [R13B03] we will maintain (and…
Recent UI updates to GitHub
On my first day at GitHub, I asked the crew what they wanted to me to do around here. Their response was something along the lines of "make GitHub sexy"…
Post-Mortem of This Morning’s Outage
At 07:53 PDT this morning the site was hit with an abnormal number of SSH connections. The script that runs after an SSH connection is accepted makes an RPC call…
How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we've made in order to bring…
Renaming Temporarily Disabled
Both user and repository renaming are temporarily disabled. Sorry about that! It's for a good cause. Should be back in a week.
GitHub is Moving to Rackspace!
In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We're aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…
Continuous Integration Spring Cleaning
Continuous Integration is a fancy term for "run your project's tests after someone pushes to the repository and notify interested parties if they fail." We're currently in the process of…
The 2009 GitHub Contest
Today we're announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…
Git for Windows Developers Part 2
Jason Meridth has produced a follow up to his excellent Git for Windows blog post. The newest blog post details sign up, creating a repository, pushing, branching, status - all…
Grails Internals Handbook
Inspired by the Merb Internals Handbook, the Grails community has begun working on a handbook of their own: The Grails Internals Handbook. From the README: If you want to contribute,…
Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin
We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…
Gems now built from the default branch
We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository's default branch, which isn't necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.
GitHub API, take two
A lot of people were excited about the Issues release yesterday, but many asked for an API for it. Because we love you all and you're so good to us,…
GitHub Issue Tracker!
It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you'll now see an "Issues" tab in the top menu. Here's a quick rundown of…