Scott Chacon

Written by Scott Chacon

Scott Chacon is a co-founder of GitHub and GitButler, where he builds innovative tools for modern version control. He has authored Pro Git and spoken globally on Git and software collaboration.

Automate Your AI Workflows with Claude Code Hooks

Automate Your AI Workflows with Claude Code Hooks

11 days ago by

Claude Code's new hooks system is a powerful tool for automating your agent workflows. We'll do a quick overview of what's possible and explore a few fun examples.

Managing Multiple Claude Code Sessions Without Worktrees

Managing Multiple Claude Code Sessions Without Worktrees

13 days ago by

With Claude Code's new lifecycle hooks, GitButler auto-sorts simultaneous AI coding into separate branches. Write three features, get three clean branches — no conflicts, no worktrees, no hassle.

GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera"

GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera"

a month ago by

GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based commits and more!

20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

4 months ago by

Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?

GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)

GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)

4 months ago by

Introducing Butler Review, a new commit-based, chat centered code review tool, now in beta.

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

5 months ago by

Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?

How to do patch-based review with git range-diff

How to do patch-based review with git range-diff

5 months ago by

Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of patches.

GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball"

GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball"

9 months ago by

Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing feature.

Fearless Rebasing

Fearless Rebasing

9 months ago by

GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?

Git Merge 2024

Git Merge 2024

10 months ago by

Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.

Why GitHub Actually Won

Why GitHub Actually Won

a year ago by

How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.

GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

a year ago by

GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.

The New Era of Town Hall Chat

The New Era of Town Hall Chat

a year ago by

We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and more importantly, why.

The Future of Open Source

The Future of Open Source

a year ago by

A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.

GitButler is now Fair Source

GitButler is now Fair Source

a year ago by

GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.

Git Merge 2024

Git Merge 2024

a year ago by

GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!