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Thanks to rodjek and technoweenie the trailing “.git” is now optional when cloning GitHub repos using SmartHTTP: $ git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo Cloning into endo… remote: Counting objects: 6, done. remote:…
It’s that time again. Sorry for the short notice Parisians, but tomorrow night (Friday, March 4) I will be hosting a drinkup at Patricks Irish Pub in Paris. A bunch…
Git is pretty awesome, right? Of course I’m right. If you didn’t think so, you wouldn’t be here. The trick is, Git is pretty damn confusing if you’ve never used…
About a year ago, I wrote a post talking about the avalanche of commits coming into GitHub. That Tuesday, GitHub received 33,154 pushes containing 109,290 commits. An insane number to…
$ python raffle.py And the winners are… *drumroll* graffic and dryan! Congrats to graffic and dryan! We’ll see you at PyCon 2011.
PyCon 2011 is fast approaching and we’re giving away two free tickets to the conference. Want one? Just fork github/pycon2011 and we’ll randomly select two winners this Friday, February 25th.…
Over the weekend we rolled out a few changes to email notifications to better take advantage of your mail reader’s ability to group messages into conversations and threads: Here’s what’s…
Nerd Merit Badges bring the fun of collecting merit badges to those of us with a penchant for late night coding sessions and weekends poring over esoteric nerd folklore. Get…
Today Tower, the most powerful Git client for Mac, was officially released. The best part? Use coupon code GITHUB10 to get 10% off until March 15th, 2011. Or, just click…
GitHub is in New York City and tomorrow night at 9pm we’re sponsoring the drinks at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference at the Sheraton in midtown. Please stop by…
Back when I started using TextMate, its cmd-T file finder completely changed the way I browse and read code. When I switched to Janus last year, it was only because…
Join us for a meetup at the Edinburgh Castle Pub! Thats PUB. Not the castle. In SAN FRANCISCO. Not in the United Kingdom. Sorry to our lovely UK users- we’ll…
I will be in Boulder on Thursday, February 10th giving talks at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and BLUG (Boulder Linux User’s Group). The BLUG talk will be titled…
That’s right. They’re here. Now you can comment directly on individual lines in the Diff attached to any Pull Request. These things are smart. They keep their proper position, even…
Next Friday, February 11, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or your teammates need to get up…
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