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Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We’d love versioning. We’d love SSL on our private pastes.…July 21, 2008
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Scaling Lesson #23742
GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…July 17, 2008
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Easy Peezy Capistrano Deployment
The guys over at EdgeCase have written up a guide on Easier Capistrano Deployments from GitHub. It explains how to setup and use the @:forward_agent@ option when you deploy. Nice!July 15, 2008
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Formatted Files
Files in your repository are now formatted same as the README. This means if you have a file with a @.markdown@ extension, for example, it’ll show up all pretty-like. Enjoy.…July 15, 2008
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Dashboard Widget
The stand up fellas over at New Leaders have created a GitHub Dashboard Widget for OS X. Check it out – very slick!July 15, 2008
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Fork You Sighting #2
(Thanks mathie)July 14, 2008
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Supercharged git-daemon
Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd…July 14, 2008
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Supercharged Diff One-Liners
I’ve just added a small diff enhancement that will help you determine what changed in one line diff sections. By highlighting the specific changes, you can now see at a…July 14, 2008
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Supercharged Vim Theme
You TextMate users already have a GitHub theme, but now us Vimiacs can join the fun. Grab the theme right here. Thanks Bruno!July 10, 2008
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Supercharged Commits (on your site)
Ari Lerner has a blog post about keeping your site as fresh as your code. How? By showing off recent commits. See it in action on the poolparty website: Nice.…July 9, 2008
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Supercharged Ruby-Git
One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let’s open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…July 9, 2008
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Supercharged Downloads
The Download button is now supercharged. It gives you the option to download a Zip version of the repository and suggests other downloads – recent tags, basically – giving people…July 7, 2008
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Services Galore
After open sourcing the GitHub services code, we’ve been just floored with the number of pull requests for adding tons of functionality. We launched the service hooks with just Campfire…June 29, 2008
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Visual Cheat Sheet
Even if you’re a Git master, Zack Rusin’s Git Cheat Sheet may prove useful. It’s got a whole lotta commands ready for cheatin’. Thanks Zack!June 27, 2008
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Commit Comment Preview
It’s here for the faceboxes – I’m so sick of seeing people guess wrong about the formatting. Really, it makes me sad. Coming soon everywhere else.June 25, 2008
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