Pro Git Book
For about the last 8 months, I’ve been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…
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NY State Senate Code on GitHub
If you’re in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…
Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin
We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the…
Sticker Progress
I wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the stickers we offered a while ago. Tom asked you to email him if you were interested in some stickers…
GitHub API, take two
A lot of people were excited about the Issues release yesterday, but many asked for an API for it. Because we love you all and you’re so good to us,…
This GitHub is going to the boids…
This morning I downloaded and ran Frock, a flocking chicken simulation written in Lua with Löve (a 2D game framework for Lua). Why? Not entirely sure, except that I remember…
London Git Training
If you’re in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…
New and Improved Search
We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…
Gnome DVCS Survey
In December, the Gnome team did a survey of its contributors about which DVCS they might be interested in moving to in 2009. The GNOME DVCS Survey Results are now…
Only the beginning
2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…
European Training
Since GitHub will be in Europe at the end of March (23-29), if any of our European friends are interested in Git training, please let us know so we can…
GitHub in Europe
This March, GitHub is coming to Europe. We’re planning on hitting the ApacheCon for a few days in Amsterdam to meet some of our continental friends, then flying up to…
Pages Generator
Last week we released a feature for hosting your custom websites for your projects that we call ‘GitHub Pages’. For personal repositories, the process is easy enough – just create…
Perl Mirror on GitHub
For those of you who had not heard, Perl has moved its 20 year source code history for Perl 5 from Perforce to Git (also, the bird is in fact…
The Fork Queue
I would like to introduce you to the Fork Queue, the first of two big features that rolled out today. As of a few minutes ago, everybody should now have…
Fast Forward Your Fork
Since forking a repository is so easy on GitHub, a number of people tend to do it thinking they want to play with the source, but then never actually push…