Attackers have taken over GitHub repositories, copied their contents and then deleted them. The maintainers only found a readme file in the renamed repositories, which prompted them to contact the ...

Github CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend that the company is working to replace ‘master’ with a neutral term like ‘main’ to remove references to slavery. The company currently uses ‘master’ to ...

"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 ...

The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. That’s it. That’s all you have to do. Just provide the name of your branch after the –delete ...

GitHub has taken down a repository by a user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” that contained Twitter’s proprietary source code after the social network filed a DCMA takedown request. The username ...

The world of technology and software development is ever-evolving. One tool that has consistently proven to be a linchpin in this world is GitHub. Often touted as the “Facebook for programmers,” ...