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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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GitHub Commit Chat

Want an easier way to manage all your conversation on GitHub? Check out CommitChat. They’re currently in a closed beta but you can sign up to join. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090123-nri5p2nkcf93p9gp18dw3h1ci9.png) Great job…

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Scripting Bioclipse

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist!They create Gists then…

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London Git Training

If you’re in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…

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Using Input Values as Hints

script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle.A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds hints…

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BlogBridge: Cross Platform RSS Reader

BlogBridge looks pretty interesting: an open source, cross platform RSS reader. Their visual tour shows off many of the innovative features.And guess what? They’re hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/pitosalas/blogbridge ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090121-m7s7yusfqfwd4dqx8h7urw9xep.png) From…

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RESTful Flex and AIR Apps

The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090121-ghhyt5cme213x7121u6agqbhak.png) From the site: If…

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GitHub Rebase #11

A bit late, but always delivered. All of the projects and people featured this week crank the volume to 11! (Stats Breakdown lost its passport on vacation, and hopefully will…

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New and Improved Search

We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…

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My Git Workflow

Old school GitHub user ivey has posted his Git Workflow.It covers small teams, large teams, and has a few tasty nuggets of knowledge thrown into the mix. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-cqm927p4a44439jc7x4ud75385.png) Thanks Michael!

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Parasite: Firebug for GTK+

Parasite is a Firebug-like tool for debugging and tinkering with running GTK+ applications, hosted right here on GitHub. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-kusk953ys4pis917csqs7ne9i8.png) From the page: You can actually modify your application logic while…

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Crafting RubyGems with Jeweler

technicalpickles, author of jeweler, has posted a tutorial on his blog: Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-jekfid82gi3pmpxix57biry22r.png) Check it out for info on how to build your own GitHub…

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Is [my show] on yet?

Now you’ll always know! technoweenie and seaofclouds have joined forces to bring us isLOSTonyet.com and isBSGonyet.com. More shows to come, they promise. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-tge7skxb963s2tq7kmdthawsuw.png) The code to both sites is hosted…

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