PJ Hyett

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New Create/Delete Events

You’ve created a repo on GitHub, written a bunch of great code, and now it’s time to push it: Here’s what happens on GitHub now: Along with the create events,…

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An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

Sale Extended!

We were having such a good time watching people sign up today, we figured we should just keep the fun going and extend the sale until Sunday. Also, there was…

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Cyber Monday Sale

If you’ve been waiting to see what the fuss was about, today is the day to join GitHub. We’re offering a free month on all of the paid plans if…

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PDF Receipts

We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we’re…

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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…

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Show Me the Money

There have been a fair amount of requests for this feature and we were happy to oblige. If you click the “Update Credit Card” link on your account page, there’s…

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Revamping the Guides

In an effort to make everyone’s Git and GitHub experience a little easier, we’re currently working on overhauling our guides. The first step was to replace the existing guides homepage…

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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…

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Supercharged Ruby-Git

One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let’s open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…