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

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

Other Git clients are available, including Fork, Sourcetree, and GitKraken. You can use them with a GitHub project or any other Git repository.

Starting a repository like this, you’ll usually do an “initial” commit – for that, you can run git commit -m "Initial commit", where the -m parameter is a human-readable message describing ...

Git clone vs. fork When a Git repository is cloned, the target repository remains shared amongst all of the developers who had previously contributed to it. Other developers who had previously ...

Git, GitHub and the Git URL A Git repository is of very little use if it resides entirely on your remote GitHub or GitLab account. To actually work with the various files and resources stored in that ...

Keybase has launched a new service to encrypt git repositories for free. Keybase, the provider of the Keybase security app for mobile phones and PCs, offers an open-source system supported by ...

What it is known is that the hacker removes all source code and recent commits from vitcims' Git repositories, and leaves a ransom note behind that asks for a payment of 0.1 Bitcoin (~$570).