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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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Participation Graphs go Canvas

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140918/f5fe774a-b152-11e4-9a53-4bee85f22715.png) I’ve converted our participation graphs (as seen above) to use Canvas instead of Flash. Linux users rejoice! This means the graphs should load quite a bit faster and not…

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GitHub Turns One!

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195468/9e081ce4-d767-11e5-8866-125dac0d271a.jpeg) It’s hard to imagine, but just one year ago today we made the first commit to the GitHub repository. We don’t have a baby book for GitHub, so we’ll…

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Get Ready to Rails Rumble!

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195462/74d669fc-d767-11e5-82a1-c9e34b330f50.png) The 2008 Rails Rumble is set to start tonight at midnight and we’ll be sponsoring the competition in two ways. First, we’re providing free private repositories for each of…

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Network Graph: Better, Stronger, Faster!

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140892/b9f0f278-b152-11e4-83d3-a9d2ef633ff3.png) It’s been almost 6 months since we released the network graph and since then it has become an indispensable part of the GitHub experience. Over that period I’ve been…

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Local GitHub Config

With awesome tools like GitNub and GitX adding GitHub integration, it would be great if you didn’t have to keep re-entering you username and API token. So let’s settle on…

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Oh yeah…

Scott Chacon is now officially a GitHubber. Read his blog post about it. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195408/7e139676-d766-11e5-951b-a863faa4e239.jpg) From running git-scm.com to writing the Git Peepcode to creating GitCasts to all his open source…

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Has my gem built yet?

James Smith wants you to know if your gem has built yet. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195421/c7bdd73c-d766-11e5-9040-a9c2b1727dd0.png) It’s open source, too. Thanks James!

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Git Down: Success!

Last week’s Git Down was great. Thanks to all who came out, and sorry to all who missed it. ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2921649057_26948a3bd3.jpg?v=0) ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2922498828_c6e908d37b.jpg?v=0) I’ve posted a few pictures on my Flickr account.

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