Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet. It’s free, open-source and can handle anything ...

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 ...

Until now, the most compelling reason to opt into the GitHub Pro paid product was because it enabled you to create a private repository. Developers could use GitHub's free offering -- with a ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to add a GitHub shortcut to a Jira project so you can view information about branches, commits and pull requests in Jira issues. Image: prima91/Adobe Stock When Jira is your ...

Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

GitHub changelog posts detail new Copilot Spaces sharing features, a Visual Studio Copilot update, and public preview access ...

Prominent GitLab users include GNOME, F-Droid, and Inkscape. Gitea is another relative newcomer, with bug tracking, wiki ...

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to ...

The Zig Programming Language is officially quitting GitHub and moving its main repository over to Codeberg. The reasoning is ...