Before we can understand what GitHub does and how GitHub works, we need to understand Git. Git is a distributed version control system, originally written by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for and with ...

If you need to work with GitHub, but don't have time to get up to speed with the git command line, Jack Wallen believes the GitHub Desktop app is the perfect tool for the job.

Now that you’ve got Git and GitHub set up on your Mac, it’s time to learn how to use them. Git is easy to learn (although it can take a lot to master) but with so many users there are a lot of ...

GitHub announced an update to its Command Line Interface (CLI), introducing enhanced support for triangular workflows - a ...

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by ...

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface.

After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service. The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in ...

If any users perform a Git push or pull with the old Git URL, the server will perform a redirect while instructing the developer to update their remote Git references. So even though the Git ...

Linus Torvalds keeps a copy of his Linux kernel project on GitHub, the wildly popular code-hosting website. But there's a caveat. If you try to send him a patch or a bug-fix via GitHub, he'll tell ...

Git and GitHub weren't far behind either. Starting October 1, all new GitHub repositories will create a default branch named main, and GitHub will no longer create a master branch for you. Let's ...