Multiple Post-Receive URLs
You can now add multiple Post-Receive URLs for a single repository. Also, the Post-Receive settings have moved to the 'Services' tab (where they belong).
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GitHub Rebase #4
Sorry about the delay on this one folks. Enjoy! :) Stats Breakdown Notable Projects acts_like_git: Crappy name, but this Rails plugin really does some neat stuff. It allows you to…
GitHub Code Search
Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we're unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we've been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…
GitTogether 2008
What happens when a dozen Git developers get together for beers after an all day Git conference? Patches like this: Subject: [PATCH 1/1] diff: support making output friendlier for fine,…
GitHub Turns One!
 It's hard to imagine, but just one year ago today we made the first commit to the GitHub repository. We don't have a baby book for GitHub, so we'll…
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…
GitHub Disaster Guide
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…
Token Authentication
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…
Use GitHub as your Blog!
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…
GitHub Languages
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…
Subversion Importing!
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…
Mirroring to GitHub
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…
Testing Post-Receive Hooks
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…
Maven-enabled project hosting
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…
The Post-Apocalyptic Guide
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.…
Scaling Lesson #23742
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…
Formatted Files
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.…
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…
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…