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Closing Issues Across Repositories
Starting today, you can use commit messages to close issues in other repositories. Now you can include “fixes user/repo#45” in your commit message, and it will close the referenced issue,…March 18, 2013
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Moving and Renaming Files on GitHub
Starting today, you can move and rename files within your repositories on GitHub. Renaming a file You’ll notice that editing a file now lets you enter a new name for…March 15, 2013
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Better live updates
Pull Request live updates just became a little more awesome. We now automatically update the commits tab, and let you know when the diff tab is out out of date…March 13, 2013
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SF Drinkup #44
Join us Thursday evening for another SF Drinkup. After our first Passion Projects talk, we’re heading over to Alchemist for some 🍻 and to talk all things GitHub. The Facts:…March 11, 2013
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Introducing Passion Projects
We’re always looking for opportunities to better support women in technology. We sponsor women-focused meetups and events all over the world. This year, we’d like to try something a little…March 7, 2013
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Grand Rapids Drinkup
GRDevDay is taking place this Saturday, and with so many amazing developers together, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after party. Join @bkeepers and the rest of the…February 27, 2013
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Montreal Drinkup
ConFoo is happening this week in Montreal, and when @ben is travelling, he likes to drink with awesome people. Whether you’re in town for the conference, are a native Montrealite,…February 27, 2013
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Pittsburgh Drinkup
Join @kneath and me this Thursday at Steel Cactus in Shadyside. Yinz invited. The Facts: Steel Cactus Authentic Mexican Restaurante & Cantina – 5505 Walnut St. Thursday, February 28 at…February 26, 2013
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Spam spam spam spam!
We get a lot of spam on Gist and we have a decent system for removing it from public view. Unfortunately, from time to time, something nasty will sneak through.…February 26, 2013
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DFW Drinkup
If you’re in town for Big Ruby or just call DFW home, come hang out at Willhoites in Historic Downtown Grapevine™ and tell us all about the cool stuff you’re…February 26, 2013
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GitHub for Windows Recent Improvements
It’s been almost a year since we first released GitHub for Windows. Today we just shipped version 1.0.38. That’s 38 updates since 1.0! As we’ve said before, we ship early…February 21, 2013
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Showing your Love for the Octocat
We ❤ seeing the :octocat: in the wild! Today we’re launching a new logos page to make it easier to find official GitHub logos as well as our beloved Octocat,…February 20, 2013
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Washington, D.C. Drinkup
Two GitHubbers are headed into our nation’s capital for a civic hackathon this Friday, so that, of course, means we’re throwing a drinkup! The Facts Loft at The Hamilton February…February 19, 2013
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Introducing Boxen
Today we’re proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called “The Setup” — a…February 15, 2013
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A New Blog
I decided to blog on our blog about our new blog. Design. The blog looks fresh no matter where you read it — be it on your desktop or on…February 15, 2013
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