Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.

The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...