Chris Wanstrath

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HTTP Cloning

You can now clone public repositories hosted on GitHub over HTTP. This is very slow and should only be used if the git port (9418) is blocked due to a…

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Not Just Code

cschneid and friends are working on a Sinatra book using Git and GitHub. Anyone can join in. They join the growing number of people using Git and GitHub to write…

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The Status Blog

Site feel slow? See a weird SSH message? Have a strange feeling in your gut? Wonder no longer – check out the GitHub Status Blog to see service related news…

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Moved to GitHub

Big weekend. HiveDB, the “open source framework for horizontally partitioning MySQL systems”, is moving to GitHub. They’re moving because Git rocks and so does GitHub. Sounds good to me. Check…

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Cleaning House

In the past month I’ve done a lot of traveling. Traveling means noodling – lots of topic branches laying around from airplane rides and hotel hacking. Today I decided to…

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GitHub Support

Hey everyone, meet Matt Pruitt (aka guitsaru). He’s going to help us out on the support front – mailing list, email, and Lighthouse. With Matt’s help, we’ll have more time…

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MooHub

One of my favorite people uses the MooTools Javascript framework and noticed something on the framework’s website: That’s right, MooTools development now happens at GitHub. Yet another awesome project has…

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Ready for Lift Off

Liftweb, the hot Scala (a functional, JVM language) web framework, is now hosted on GitHub. Be sure to check out the demo or follow their Twitter if you’re interested. The…

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Git over Bonjour

Chad Fowler and friends busted out the amazing gitjour this weekend at RailsConf. It’s a simple RubyGem which lets you serve and clone git repositories over Apple’s Bonjour. I’m at…