My IRC friends have been after me to use github for what seems like forever. I finally got around to building my very first github repository for an upcoming Ars article and I thought I'd share the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key to GitHub-based DevOps is the Git repository around which every operation is based.

GitHub Issues allow you to track your development work and define tasks that must be completed. Find out exactly what they are and how to use them. Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock GitHub is the ...

Late last year, Microsoft completed a $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, the largest software development and collaboration platform of its kind. The move was initially met with some opposition from ...

It's senseless for programmers to overlook this fundamental tool.

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...