The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
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Playing the Blame Game
One of the features I use a lot in git is ‘git blame’, which will show you who was the last person to change each line in any file in…
Learn moreThe library Recently Updated and Created Repositories
Edit: this feature has been replaced by https://github.com/trending You can now browse recently updated and recently created repositories for a specific language. Go nuts!
Learn moreThe library Multiple Post-Receive URLs
You can now add multiple Post-Receive URLs for a single repository. Also, the Post-Receive settings have moved to the ‘Services’ tab (where they belong).
Learn moreThe library Code In the Open
A recent trio of blog posts highlights the benefits of putting your code experiments up on GitHub for others to see. This is a huge part of what makes GitHub…
Learn moreThe library GitHub Rebase #4
Sorry about the delay on this one folks. Enjoy! 🙂 Stats Breakdown Notable Projects acts_like_git: Crappy name, but this Rails plugin really does some neat stuff. It allows you to…
Learn moreThe library GitHub Is About People
Recent GitHub convert bigeasy has written a blog post title GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities. It’s great…
Learn moreThe library The library First GitHub Magazine Ad
This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…
Learn moreThe library Impact Graph Speedups
Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…
Learn moreThe library gh > hg
Surely you’ve seen the new GitHub gem features? Well it just got more awesome – again! Now you can use it in place of the normal @git@ binary. $ github…
Learn moreThe library Wiki Preview
Learn moreThe library More Slowness Eradicated
Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other “write” DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.
Learn moreThe library YUI Examples
davglass’ YUI code examples are now on GitHub – all 268 of them.  He’s also posted his YU in a GitHub repo, YU, and [YU]( DHTML Form Controls”:http://github.com/davglass/yui-dhtml-forms). Check…
Learn moreThe library The New, Improved GitHub Gem
While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…
Learn moreThe library GitHub at RubyConf 2008
The whole GitHub crew just got back from RubyConf 2008 this weekend, which went from Thursday through Saturday. I gave a talk on “Using Git in your Ruby Applications”, which…
Learn moreThe library GitHub Rebase #3
This week I’ve changed the graphs around quite a bit! The activity on the site just continues to increase, and surprisingly it didn’t take a hit because of RubyConf. Stats…
Learn moreThe library Brand new feature we don’t want you to use
That’s right, in the past accounts could not be deleted. Previously we advised users to downgrade to the free plan and stop using their account, but some people wanted to…
Learn moreThe library RailsRumble Winners
The winners have been announced! Check out the RailsRumble site for the list. Congrats to all.
Learn moreThe library PDF Receipts
We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we’re…
Learn moreThe library Fork You India #2
Looks like the Octocat is catching on in India.  From Flickr. Anyone know who this is?
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