Scott Chacon

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Google Summer of Git

It’s that time again. Google’s Summer of Code project is open for student applications. If you’re not familiar with it, GSoC is where Google will pay students to work on…

An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.
An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

Git Notes Display

Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you’re interested…

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Ottawa Drinkup Tonight

I’m currently at the FOSSLC conference in Ottawa, CA and we’re going out to Dantessa Italian Bar tonight starting at 21:00 (9pm for us Americans). GitHub will be buying a…

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Boston Drinkup Tonight!

Sorry for the last minute notice, but GitHub will be buying beer for geeks at Flat Top Johnny’s in Cambridge tonight (Tuesday, August 10th) around 9:30. We’re piggybacking on the…

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Perl 6 on GitHub

I’m currently at the Yet Another Perl Conference, Europe (YAPC::EU) doing some Git talkin’ and one of the big talks here was by Patrick Michaud (pmichaud) about the very recent…

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GitHub in your language

Edit (11/18/2016): GitHub no longer supports languages other than English. Today, thanks to our great community, we’re turning on a number of languages that you can view GitHub in other…