Starting your journey with GitHub can feel a bit like stepping into a bustling workshop filled with unfamiliar tools and processes. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by terms like “repositories,” ...

The git clean command removes untracked files from the working tree. So any compiled files, backups, .DS_Store Mac files, or ...

A fork in Git is simply a copy of an existing repository in which the new owner disconnects the codebase from previous committers. A fork often occurs when a developer becomes dissatisfied or ...

In this post, we will show you how to merge two branches in Git. Branching allows multiple developers to work independently and simultaneously on the same codebase. Developers often create branches to ...

An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s easy to delete a local Git branch. A simple git branch command with the -d flag and the ...

GitHub to replace master with main starting in October: What developers need to do now Your email has been sent From the office of “long overdue,” another service is dropping the divisive “master” ...

SAN FRANCISCO --When the founders of GitHub moved into their swank South-of-Market loft last year, the first thing they did was redecorate. They turned the floor's biggest office into a parody of an ...

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