Starting your journey with GitHub can feel a bit like stepping into a bustling workshop filled with unfamiliar tools and processes. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by terms like “repositories,” ...
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 ...
Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.
GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just ...
"GitHub is just not the place anymore where developers are storing code," one top Microsoft executive warned.
GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022, GitHub ...
"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 ...