When you start using GitHub, the terms repository, branch, and fork appear one after another.Since they all seem like things ...

A few weeks ago Brian wrote a great post on “Forking Your Syllabus.” Borrowing from discussions with syllabi could learn a trick or two from GitHub. GitHub is a ...

This is a few days old, but evidently there is still need for this message: Konstantin Ryabitsev explains how it is easy to cause a commit to appear falsely to be part of a GitHub repository: With all ...

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 ...

While Git users have dozens of get-started guides to choose from, and GitHub offers a number of guides of its own, it’s still not easy to find a collection of useful tips for developers who want to ...

While many work with Git in a single-user environment, the version control system scales for larger environments. So, how does a user, developer or administrator take that single-user experience and ...

Wired takes a look at the origins of GitHub, from the beginnings of the Git version control software in 2005, to the company’s current roster of 1.3 million users. Wired takes a look at the origins of ...