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.

Git in Visual Studio Code With Git and GitHub everywhere at Microsoft, it’s also built into Microsoft’s developer tools and into how developers build apps on Windows and for Azure. When you ...

For a typical repo, you would grab the repository's URL and issue a git clone command. Unfortunately, it's not always that simple on GitHub's free tier. If you're lucky, when you attempt to clone your ...

The repository explorer page provides a Create New Repository option that wraps calls to the git init command with a GUI. As files are edited, deleted or added to the file system, the GitHub Desktop ...

Git and GitHub enable programmers to work collaboratively and keep track of different versions of their software. Learning Git is essential if you want to be an advanced developer. We show how to ...

Cloning from GitHub basically requires you to get a web address to feed into the Git client. For this example, we're going to clone the Microsoft Visual Studio Code repo.

All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" starting October 1, 2020.

Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues.

All newly created GitHub repositories will default to 'main' for their main branch from today. In addition, existing repositories can also rename the 'master' branch; read on to find out why you ...

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 ...