As the launch draws near I thought I’d share some awesome things people have been saying about the GH. What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social aspect into play. Chris and

Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads. They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another excuse for not moving to

Lately people have been asking about our pricing plan. While we’re not ready to reveal it quite yet, we are ready to talk about one aspect of it: GitHub will host open source projects for

Update: We’ve discontinued this feature. Just like Facebook and FriendFeed, we’re now showing off our commit log. Not every change merits a blog post, y’know?

You can now add multiple emails to your account using the, uh, account link. And hey, are your commits not being linked to your GitHub account? Here’s why: the most recent commit was signed with

rtomayko says GitHub is ‘Myspace for Hackers‘ over on his blog. Flattering, yes, but read closely: this dude gets it. From his post: “Pull requests” happen every day over email without GitHub but, by sucking

We added a ‘profile’ link to your badge tonight, giving you easy access to your public profile. It’s, more or less, what everyone else sees. To go with it, we also added a little block

The first repository in the production db was created October 29th. The first private beta repository was created January 12th. The 1,000th repository was created today, Feburary 25th. (And yeah, that’s not counting deleted repositories.)

Activity feeds are now active. Three, in particular: events for you, events from you, and public events from you. The private feeds are protected with HTTP authentication. You need to use your GitHub username (or

Last night I pushed out a feature Tom and I have been talking about since day one: pull requests. That’s the short walkthrough. You can use it to tell people who forked from you they