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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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Gist for Greasemonkey

We’re now appending the gist name at the end of its raw url. That means it’s dead-simple to serve greasemonkey (or greasekit) scripts directly from gist.github.com. I was able to…

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Sexy JS Curls

Sexy Curls is a pretty cool JavaScript effect. You can see it in action on their page. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090119-b495f4y1gk3ushepndtea7gt7s.png) The repo is available on GitHub.

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Daily Git Tips

Git ready, git set… go! Git ready is on fire, serving daily git tips for “the noob to the guru.” ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090119-f516rb8r7j369upitm251n2xdr.png) Today’s tip? The staging area. Great job qrush!

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GitHub Sync

Dustin is on fire. His newest trick? GitHub Sync. Use it to track a user’s GitHub projects. All of them. Once [the sync] finishes, you will have all of my…

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While you were sleeping…

…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were.For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6141231/90a54842-b157-11e4-84fe-ba2b9418598b.png) Second…

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GitHub Rebase #10

And we’re back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!Stats…

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Octobadges

Nerd Merit Badges has their first badge on the way, and guess who it is. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090112-c81sx6is8prd466y9rnxfy2yag.jpg) That’s right: our very own Octocat!You can enter your email address or follow their…

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Hello, Punch Graph

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6141279/f5b9bfc4-b157-11e4-988b-0a69d87a9cd5.png) Neat.Update Forker Dustin Sallings has some more punch card fun.

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Best Bootstrapped Startup of 2008

We won! Thanks for voting everyone, we (obviously) could not have done this without you. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090111-1smyniqjmqsq3yjwmb84q7xg5u.jpg) ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090111-82depen4frub57jaxu9m1f8nnu.jpg) Here’s the full list of winners. Thanks for a great 2008!

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Wiki Subdomain

We just rolled out a security fix that puts all wikis under the @wiki.github.com@ subdomain. This means they can execute arbitrary JavaScript (like scriptaculous does, or maybe the Lighthouse Badge)…

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