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The library

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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Fork You India #2

Looks like the Octocat is catching on in India. ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2988247759_023b87db17.jpg) From Flickr. Anyone know who this is?

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GitHub Code Search

Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we’re unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we’ve been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…

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GitHub Rebase #2

It looks like I’ve been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that’s coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…

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Speedy Queries

First our new queue, and now this: ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140975/de5ad0f6-b153-11e4-8000-eaf6de1f3d72.png) ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140976/e1b220c4-b153-11e4-9b07-b8e763ef49e7.jpg) The site should be much faster – but it’s still not fast enough. We’re hard at work making things like git…

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GitHub Bookmarklet

If you’re not using a browser which has the opportunity to enjoy our OpenSearch integration (or LaunchBar / Quicksilver), perhaps this will interest you: a GitHub search bookmarklet. Drag this…

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Lighthouse Integration Screencast

The guys over at Big Bang have created a short & sweet screencast which shows how to setup GitHub and Lighthouse integration. Check it out. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195508/d04917f2-d768-11e5-92cc-81a65dc09a72.png)

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The New Queue

Yesterday we moved to a new queue, Shopify’s delayed_job (or dj). After trying a few different solutions in the early days, we settled on Ara Howard’s Bj. It was fine…

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GitTogether 2008

What happens when a dozen Git developers get together for beers after an all day Git conference? Patches like this: Subject: [PATCH 1/1] diff: support making output friendlier for fine,…

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Git helps people work together

The Software Development Times has an interesting article about Git titled Git changes how developers manage source code versions. Scott Chacon and Tom Preston-Werner are both quoted in it. While…

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245,000 Lines of Code in 48 Hours

SitePoint has an article up about this year’s Rails Rumble. Choice quote: The Rails Rumble, which partnered with Linode, to provide a uniform hosting environment for competitors, and GitHub, to…

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GitHub Rebase #1

Everyone’s favorite qrush has started a weekly series detailing activity on GitHub. He’s calling it Rebase. Cool!

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Our RubyGem build scripts are now open source

The amount of people running into issues with our gem builder has been overwhelming, so we’re releasing the code if some kind souls want to lend a hand making the…

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Oct-O-Lantern

Okay this is just amazing. Nick Quaranto has blessed us with an Oct-O-Lantern. ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2960047774_6e39a980dc.jpg?v=0) ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2960048602_c23942eda0.jpg) ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3272/2959191819_3797a3c385.jpg) To see the making of, start with this photo and keep clicking ‘next.’ Nick,…

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Easily Share Ubiquity Commands

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195483/f39d3216-d767-11e5-8540-cab062247ba4.png) ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195486/fbad612e-d767-11e5-999b-ed96fac5f8b7.png) ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195487/032b6c52-d768-11e5-90e4-1ba39833e52e.png) ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195489/0fb45330-d768-11e5-8b6f-3282b4b78457.png) You can now create Gists automatically with Ubiquity by using the ‘share’ button in the Command Editor.

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Open Source Projects at GitHub

The team behind Insoshi has written a guide to Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub. Check it out for a comprehensive guide to being both…

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