How to successfully clone a private GitHub repository. The first thing a developer wants to do after the creation of a GitHub repository is to clone it. For a typical repo, you would grab the ...

Microsoft is making GitHub's private repositories free to smaller developers and teams, which could help Microsoft go head-to-head with GitLab and BitBucket.

The software development platform GitHub allows users to manage projects by making repositories private, preventing code from being seen by anyone other than those involved. However, an ...

Both personal and organizational accounts on the code-hosting site will get unlimited private repos and a simplified pricing structure Paid plans on social-coding site GitHub now include unlimited ...

— GitHub (@github) January 7, 2019 Fortunately, that’s no longer the case, as GitHub today announced it was giving users of its free plan access to unlimited private repositories.

Attackers constantly search public code repositories like GitHub for secrets developers might inadvertently leave behind, and any tiny mistake can be exploited.

No longer. Now every GitHub account can create an unlimited number of private repositories. These are still restricted—only three people can collaborate on these repositories—but a great many ...

To get private repositories, you had to pay. Starting tomorrow, that limitation is gone. Free GitHub users now get unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators.