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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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Code Search On Vacation

The Code Search feature will be taking a brief vacation as we try to iron out some kinks with it. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195426/e1fe9e9c-d766-11e5-821b-fdddcc2ac709.png)

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Git Down: Tomorrow!

If you swing by you may possibly learn about any of the following: code_swarm git-sh magit GitHub on the iPhone You will definitely get some free beer and a chance…

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Fork You on the Thunder Show

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Token Authentication

We’ve just added site-wide token based authentication. You can find your API token in your account page, front and center. Simply pass login and token to any URL which requires…

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ZendCon 2008 Pics

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Kindle Winner

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GitHub Decimates!

Russell Mull discusses his experience hacking on Cappuccino: While playing with cappuccino, I thought I’d fix a few bugs. So I made a github account and cloned the full repo.…

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PostgreSQL on GitHub

Okay no, they’re not here yet. But the amazing PostgreSQL has a git mirror which can only mean one thing – they need to move to GitHub. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195397/210dab60-d766-11e5-94ac-8009b5e89134.png) Are you…

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Git Down Speaker #2

rictic will be showing off his code_swarm fork, which you may have seen in this video. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195385/b9117960-d765-11e5-8a8d-c94bfd51a063.png) We still need more speakers – if you’ve got anything interesting and Git…

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Use GitHub as your Blog!

David Baldwin has said goodbye to WordPress and started using GitHub as his blog. Go see for yourself: github.com/bilson/blog I love seeing novel uses of git and GitHub and this…

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The Git Down – September 30th!

Join us for the first ever Git Down on Tuesday, September 30th at 7:30pm. Mingle with other Git and GitHub addicts while you drink free beer. Listen to the world…

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Git in Haskell

Evan Martin’s gat is Git in Haskell. If you’re interested in Git, Haskell, or both, the code is worth a gander.

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GitHub at ZendCon

Catch the whole GitHub crew at the 2008 ZendCon in Santa Clara on September 16th and 17th! [![](http://www.zendcon.com/ZendCon08/public/asset/asset/63)](http://www.zendcon.com/ZendCon08/public/content/home) Stop by booth 304 if you’re attending and grab a t-shirt or…

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GitHub Languages

Edit: these features are no longer available. To go along with our new language graphs we’ve added some site-wide language pages. First, the top languages in GitHub as used by…

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One more thing…

When do people usually commit to Rubinius? ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140799/c94e2174-b151-11e4-8cb9-ceaee7a14e8e.png) What languages are used by gitbuilder? ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140805/d751df18-b151-11e4-994d-c47a3b71cb75.png) Who committed how much to GitNub, and when? ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6140811/e85d099a-b151-11e4-8a07-4fccf16f914e.png) Big thanks to Chris Neukirchen for…

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