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A comprehensive archive with older product announcements, company updates, guides, tutorials, and other blogs from GitHub. Consider The Library a repository of historical GitHub information where you can explore the evolution of GitHub’s tools, features, and policies over time. Find insights into the development and progression of GitHub’s offerings (like the pull request!), while understanding how past updates and announcements have shaped the GitHub you know today.  

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Easy Git!

eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…

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My Octobadge

Now a permanent fixture on my jacket.img http://img.skitch.com/20090202-buuwtc4xeh9jxynwwgdjj3s3b6.jpg http://www.nerdmeritbadges.comGet yours.

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Gruber Gets It

From Daring Fireball: One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back…

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Database Troubles

This morning we had some database problems. With help from Engine Yard we were able to identify the slower queries and eliminate them.Here you can see our database exploding:img http://img.skitch.com/20090130-x5dfywbure73aqfjt3bqspckf3.pngAnd…

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Tracking Windows in Git

Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. The post is just insane. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090129-tx2gcdnhsgr8ybsapnh8u8mg9e.png) A taste: I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed “git init”, and…

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gist.py

JeremyBanks and davglass have been busy: they’ve rewritten my gist.rb command line tool in Python.Check out davglass’ gist.py for the code and some enhanced functionality. #Creates a new Gist gist…

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Testing in Django

Gareth Rushgrove recently gave a presentation on Django Testing.It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his django-test-extensions. Thanks Gareth!(As an aside, Gareth’s blog…

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GitHub Rebase #12

Plenty of awesome projects this week! Oh, you want to be featured too? It’s easy!Featured Projectioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code until it’s…

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