What is a bare Git repository? But what if you have a server where you simply want to manage a Git repository, allow users to push and pull, and have no interest in using that repository for ongoing ...

To really understand the difference between pull and fetch, you must know how a Git installation is structured. On a user’s workstation, a Git installation includes the following items: The local Git ...

You can use a local Git repository, or work with Git in Azure Devops and Visual Studio Team Services. Code can be quickly branched for your own work, creating local branches from remote masters.

Hosting your own code repository has many benefits, such as security and ease of use. Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy a local repository to your data center with Gogs.

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub.

Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

Git can merge from a branch in a remote repository simply by transferring needed objects and then running a local merge. Thanks to the content-addressed storage design, Git knows which objects to ...

Still, using a Git repository also comes with its share of challenges. One of the biggest is that you must comply with the Git repo size limit of different managers like GitHub and Bitbucket to ...

Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository Virtualized file system approach makes Git work better for huge repositories.