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Welcome to the first edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly installment chronicling awesome GitHub repos, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz, one of the classy gentlemen…

Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for serving static assets. We’ve also rolled out some general asset delivery optimizations. Depending on how far…

If you’ve emailed GitHub Support recently you may have met Petros. He’s the incredibly helpful second half of our support team, and today he starts working full time at GitHub.…

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant – you can’t link to it from another program because…

I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…

We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…

GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you’re attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…

We’ve been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we’re launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to…

Last night, the one millionth git repository was created on GitHub. That is a heck of a lot of repositories. Since we first launched, there have been a lot of…

I recently launched the first GitHub node.js project: nodeload. Nodeload replaces the ruby git archive download server. Basically, any time you download a tarball or zip file of any repository…

Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…

github-rebase(1) – Forward-port awesome projects to the updated upstream head Featured Project memcached is the battle tested in-memory key/value store that helps power GitHub among countless other sites and makes…

I just pushed a feature that optionally uses annotated tags to describe your project’s downloads. Check out how Rails describes their v2.3.5 release: Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 * Improved Ruby…

Welcome back to GitHub Rebase! It’s a .NET week here on the Rebase. If you’ve got a suggestion for themes or projects let me know! Featured Project masstransit is an…

Time for another GitHub Rebase, covering some of the latest and greatest projects that make their home here on GitHub. Let me know if yours should be on a future…

When I initially sat down to write the Network Graph two years ago, I chose Adobe Flash for two primary reasons: 1) I was already familiar with Flash, having worked…

Welcome to GitHub Rebase #39! Just remember, git rot is a unique two-part liquid epoxy that saturates and restores original strength to wood by penetrating the rot. Not necessary to…

We log a message to Campfire anytime someone deploys code to staging or production. It looks like this: Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you…

Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here. In the meantime, check out this preview of some neat visualizations using the…

According to git-checkout(1): “You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD”. Git is your Friend, not a Foe explains how this is possible.…

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub’s sharded file server architecture. As a reminder,…