The latest blogs from GitHub

Want to make sure your post-receive hook only gets called by GitHub? Post-receive URLs now support HTTP basic auth.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you guys are a pain in the ass. We love our users. Didn’t you get the box of chocolates we sent you?…


Vim user? Emacs true believer? Don’t feel left out – we’ve got Gist support for you too!   Vim users can grab Gist.vim (GitHub repo) while Emacsers will enjoy…

gtcaz has begun improving the Gist support in drnic’s GitHub TextMate Bundle  The Gist support was originally written by mattmatt. It uses gist.rb and supports authentication out of the…

Update: You should check eclipse.github.com instead. Using Eclipse? Interested in GitHub integration? You may be in luck with EGit and this GitHub Guide by PEZ.  If you can help…

You can now pass @–learn@ to any GitHub gem command to see the @git@ operations being run under the covers. Hot off the presses: Your browser does not support IFrames…

Now you can search GitHub repositories or code using this new Ubiquity command. Thanks bastos!

People have asked for our delayed_job god config. Welp, here it is:

One of the features I use a lot in git is ‘git blame’, which will show you who was the last person to change each line in any file in…

Edit: this feature has been replaced by https://github.com/trending You can now browse recently updated and recently created repositories for a specific language. Go nuts!

You can now add multiple Post-Receive URLs for a single repository. Also, the Post-Receive settings have moved to the ‘Services’ tab (where they belong).

A recent trio of blog posts highlights the benefits of putting your code experiments up on GitHub for others to see. This is a huge part of what makes GitHub…

Sorry about the delay on this one folks. Enjoy! 🙂 Stats Breakdown Notable Projects acts_like_git: Crappy name, but this Rails plugin really does some neat stuff. It allows you to…

Recent GitHub convert bigeasy has written a blog post title GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities. It’s great…

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This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…

Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…

Surely you’ve seen the new GitHub gem features? Well it just got more awesome – again! Now you can use it in place of the normal @git@ binary. $ github…


Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other “write” DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.