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Magma Rails Winners
The first of our tickets for Magma Rails goes to Fernando. Signing up in our first year, Fernando has been a GitHub member longer than the others who entered and…July 19, 2011
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GitHub Reflog v1.7.19
Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. This week, we’re extending a warm…July 19, 2011
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SF Drinkup #28
For this month’s Drinkup, we’re doing it in the neighborhood… our new neighborhood. As some of you may know, we just moved to GitHub HQ 2.0, as in last weekend.…July 12, 2011
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Magma Rails Ticket Give-away
It’s time for another conference ticket give-away. This time it’s for Magma Rails, a Ruby/Rails conference in Mexico. To celebrate their second year, we have 2 tickets to give away.…July 11, 2011
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Kiwi PyCon Winner
A big congratulations goes out to Jonathon! He’ll be traveling across the ditch to Wellington for a few handles, some Maori roast and of course Python. Thank you to all…June 28, 2011
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Linguist
From time to time we get requests asking us to add support for new highlighting lexers, recognize additional extensions as certain languages, or ignore a directory from a repo’s stats…June 27, 2011
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Announcing GitHub for Mac
Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you’ve pushed your code to GitHub.…Josh AbernathyJune 22, 2011
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API v3: 190 methods to build on
The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We…Timothy ClemJune 20, 2011
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Kiwi PyCon Ticket Give-Away
We have an extra ticket for Kiwi PyCon! The conference is in the lovely Wellington, NZ in late August. If you’re interested in going, just fork this gist and answer…June 20, 2011
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GitHub Services Get an Upgrade
We deployed a big change to GitHub Services this week. The code is now clearer, more consistent, and better tested (thanks to Faraday). We also recently added support for Redmine,…Risk OlsonJune 14, 2011
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Learning Is Sexy
As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we’ve revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we’ve…June 14, 2011
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Repo Transfers
We’ve just opened up access to a feature we’ve been brewing for some time now… transferring repositories between accounts! While we’ve actually had this capability for a few months now,…June 10, 2011
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New Users, Repos, and Orgs API
Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…June 9, 2011
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Online Git Training next Monday
It is that time once again! Next Monday, June 13, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or…June 8, 2011
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Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow @ 20:00 PST
The site will be down for maintenance tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 8, 2011) at 20:00 PST. We’ll be restarting a couple redis servers to increase limits. Total downtime shouldn’t exceed…June 8, 2011
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