The latest blogs from GitHub

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…

We pushed out a fix the other day that updated our gem builder to look inside your repository’s default branch, which isn’t necessarily master anymore, to build your gemspecs.

Code Watch is now available on the App Store as a paid version which supports private repos and a free version for open source. img http://img.skitch.com/20090525-e9smww21a2bmcijeaincr2gqdb.png http://www.highorderbit.com/codewatch Check it out!

The GitHub Twilight Theme by @miksago is a way to make GitHub… dark. img http://img.skitch.com/20090519-sbqmt73aujis735e9t28xkne.png http://userstyles.org/styles/18041 Requires Firefox, Stylish, and Greasemonkey.

I’ve written a blog post over at my personal blog that you all may enjoy. It’s about learning git by looking at how a Git-like system could be built from…

Welcome back to Rebase! I’ve set up a new site as an archive for the column and the latest featured projects at http://rebase.github.com. I’d also like to thank everyone who’s…

RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it’ll take…

Are you part of a US city, state, or federal government organization that uses GitHub for your source hosting? Do you belong to a government-oriented non-profit that uses GitHub? Do…

@quirkey has written a great Guide to GitHub Pages, specifically on using the built-in Jekyll integration. img http://img.skitch.com/20090504-n4wr7imm2bk9de3w234c9qg167.png http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2009/05/01/github-pages-for-fun-and-win Check it out and start busting out some awesome documentation for…

Yet another Sunday, yet another Rebase! Featured Project compass makes CSS not suck. It’s a flexible CSS meta-framework that ties together the power of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) and…

Circa is a programming language designed for for rapid prototyping by @andyfischer. The intro page has some good information and the syntax example highlights some interesting ideas: — The @…

Have a nerdy writer in your life? Think they could benefit from version control? Point them at Flashbake by @commandline. Or, even better, point them at this Lifehacker article on…

‘Nuff said. Grab the code and check the README. img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-8ik7kuq27mn2rk6ni5thn5nmjq.png http://github.com/mattball/MBCoverFlowView Nicely done @mattball!

iOctocat is now available on the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/ioctocat @dbloete has written a blog post announcing it and promising some cool future features (like commit details). img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-fhj6p5benrh1h21ci62ik3bpas.png http://dbloete.github.com/ioctocat Naturally…

GitHub Voice by @tristandunn is a UserVoice-like jQuery plugin for GitHub Issues. Add it to your project’s page or website for ultimate sleekness: img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-fjd5int2sdpnf1jy8k7bxaxyhs.png http://github.com/tristandunn/github-voice Grab the code from…

BusinessWeek has named the GitHub cofounders some of the best young entrepreneurs of 2009. img http://img.skitch.com/20090423-84bcfw91kyr181seqc25dhfedh.jpg http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0421_best_young_entrepreneurs/17.htm Thanks to everyone who tweeted their support and thanks to BusinessWeek for the…

Most repos use the branch master as their default, but Git doesn’t force this upon you and why should we? Now you can change it to whatever you want. This…

Please welcome @qrush (Nick Quaranto) to the core Jekyll team (now consisting of the two of us)! img http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb8975af8e49e19e3dd6b6b84a542e26?s=200 He’ll be helping me keep Jekyll active and awesome by assisting…

Amanda developer @djmitche writes: I’m a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We’re…

@mojombo, @pjhyett and I will be doing a panel at Open Source Bridge in June on Bootstrapping Your Open Source Business. img http://opensourcebridge.org/badges/submit240.png http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/270 It looks like it’ll be a…

img http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/images/gfm.png The move to GitHub Flavored Markdown for all messages and comments on the site is now complete! Any comments or messages created after 2009-04-20 19:00:00 UTC will be…