The latest blogs from GitHub

Learning Git is not the easiest thing in the world. There are a ton of commands, many of which have multiple personalities. What’s an aspiring hacker to do? The same…

Ruby on Rails is moving to Git and GitHub. Super cool.I particularly like the comment from AkitaOnRails: Right now, everybody is playing catch-up with Git, Git-svn and Github, no question…

Update, April 1st, 2010: While this post was originally made in jest, head over to Announcing SVN Support to see that it’s now reality.You may have noticed things have slowed…

Thanks to @VxJasonxV you can now install the GitHub Firefox easy-search from any page on our site:Search away.

Do you feel a sense of longing, even loss, when away from GitHub? Ian Ownbey provides some help: a Firefox search plugin for GitHub. Never be more than a few…

We just rolled out our new and improved search. It’s way better. Try out this search for git to see what I mean. It searches across repository names, descriptions, and…

Hey, wondering how much disk space you’re using? Check your account page to find out. Usage is updated every time you push.As for me, I’ve got around 30 repositories (including…

Things have been quiet around here lately as we prepare for the launch. We’re doing a lot of work on the backend to ensure we will be stable and swift…

Installing a Rails plugin from GitHub is now as simple as:./script/plugin install git://github.com/pjhyett/auto_migrations.gitSweet! Thanks to all involved for making it happen, the changeset is here.Now, to figure out gem support…

Rob Hudson and a few co-workers recently tried to build a full fledged Django app in 3 hours using Git and GitHub. Really, it’s a match made in heaven: an…

We’ve moved our bug tracking and feature requests to Lighthouse.Thanks to the ActiveReload guys for making a great product.UpdateWith the launch of our new issue tracker, our trackers on Lighthouse…

Ever since announcing that public projects are free, people have been asking about our pricing plans. The moment of truth has arrived.Details are here: http://github.com/plansUpdate: We’ve added an FAQ section…

As announced on the mailing list, we just pushed out our API. The API documentation has more information.Basically: http://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt/github-gem/commits/master There’s json, xml, and yaml. You can grab a list of…

topfunky has an excellent post on using “gestures to control Git”.From the article: Swipe up to git push Swipe down to git pull Swipe left to see git status

Any READMEs ending in @.markdown@ or @.textile@ will now be displayed using the proper filter. Take Josh’s here, for instance. Sexy.Update: We speak RDoc now, too. Use the @.rdoc@ extension.

Edit: these features have been replaced by https://github.com/explore.Wondering what’s hot on GitHub? Wonder no further. We just pushed out the popular forked and popular watched charts. They’ll be updated nightly…

We now have a Google Group for discussions. Use it to ask questions, talk about ideas, whatever. We’ll see you there.http://groups.google.com/group/github/

Apparently some of the more popular feed readers can’t handle HTTP authentication, SSL feeds, or a combination of the two. No matter! GitHub private feeds are now accessible via a…

We’ll have an hour or two of downtime tonight around midnight PST while the awesome dudes at Engine Yard upgrade our disk capacity. Thanks, see you on the flip side.

As the launch draws near I thought I’d share some awesome things people have been saying about the GH. What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social…

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another…