The latest blogs from GitHub

vanpelt at the SF JS Meetup.

We just rolled out a new feature that allows you to activate an auto-response to any pull requests you receive. Here’s a few use cases that make this a pretty…

(You must have write access to the repository.)

Two nights ago, jnunemaker headed on a motorcycle ride to the Mackinac bridge in northern Michigan. GitHub led the way.


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…

Called the “next killer app for Ruby,” Adhearsion has moved to GitHub. Jay Phillips, creator of Adhearsion, has a great blog post explaining the move and discussing GitHub. From the…

From Wired’s Defcon images. Update: We have a positive ID on the forker: dustin

Want to show Gists on your Tumblr, like Eric does? Then check out his Gistr. Use it like so: $ gistr -e tumblr@email -p password -t post_title gist_id

Let’s say you’ve got a cool Gist you want to share, but don’t love the boring URL. No problem. Just use bit.ly. bit.ly is a URL shortener which lets you…

The flogic guys have a great write up detailing their setup. They go into detail on how to setup a local mirror to use when deploying your app. Here’s a…

Blueprint CSS, everyone’s favorite CSS framework, has moved to GitHub. Straight from the horse’s mouth: Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time.…

The Haskell guys got together, evaluated the options, and decided Git was the best choice. It came down to two things: the degree of support available, and flexibility of the…

Bryan Helmkamp of weplay has published his team’s Git deployment workflow over on his blog. It includes a bunch of Rake tasks which we’ve Gist’d for your convenience. # by…

You can now test post-receive hooks by viewing the “edit” page of your repository. This’ll fire off a similar payload to the one your post-receive URL will receive on a…

mrdon has an excellent blog post explaining how to use GitHub with Maven. Not just read-only, either – mrdon’s solution handles pushing the git repository changes to GitHub transparently. The…

The new post-receive API is live. The guide has been updated to reflect the change.

Repositories can be renamed via their edit page. Users can be renamed via their account page. That is all.

Worried about GitHub going down? Host not found errors in the middle of your deploy? Fear not! guitsaru” has written a guide on what to do When GitHub Goes Bad.…

A post I wrote about applying 37signals’ Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…

In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you’re at either of these events stop by and say hi.…