New to Git?
Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy – A great guide for beginners Git for designers – No knowledge of…
Chris Wanstrath
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Intro to Gist Video
bryanl has posted a video explaining Gist. Check it out! BryanL demos Gist: A Super Hot Pastebin from Bryan Liles on Vimeo.
Here’s the Gist of it
Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We’d love versioning. We’d love SSL on our private pastes.…
Easy Peezy Capistrano Deployment
The guys over at EdgeCase have written up a guide on Easier Capistrano Deployments from GitHub. It explains how to setup and use the @:forward_agent@ option when you deploy. Nice!
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.…
Dashboard Widget
The stand up fellas over at New Leaders have created a GitHub Dashboard Widget for OS X. Check it out – very slick!
Supercharged Vim Theme
You TextMate users already have a GitHub theme, but now us Vimiacs can join the fun. Grab the theme right here. Thanks Bruno!
Supercharged Commits (on your site)
Ari Lerner has a blog post about keeping your site as fresh as your code. How? By showing off recent commits. See it in action on the poolparty website: Nice.…
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…
Visual Cheat Sheet
Even if you’re a Git master, Zack Rusin’s Git Cheat Sheet may prove useful. It’s got a whole lotta commands ready for cheatin’. Thanks Zack!
Commit Comment Preview
It’s here for the faceboxes – I’m so sick of seeing people guess wrong about the formatting. Really, it makes me sad. Coming soon everywhere else.
Popular Languages
We’re working on some awesome new visualizations and statistics here at GitHub. While they’re not quite ready to roll out, there is one chart I wanted to share. These are…
git-remote-branch
If you aren’t using the GitHub gem, then perhaps “webmat’s”:webmat git_remote_branch may interest you. The aim of the micro-project can best be summed up with a quote: I believe the…
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…
Fork Sighting
[Slant](http://github.com/slant) caught forking some food. Got any ‘Fork You’ spottings? “Hit me”:mailto:chris@logicalawesome.com.