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,” ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Developers should be aware of a few caveats when they rebase GitHub repositories, especially ...

If you’re a developer today, odds are you’ve learned Git, the version control system at the heart of modern software workflows. You know the basics — how repositories work, how to create branches and ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...

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