You've likely heard of Git as a mysterious tool programmers use to work with their code. However, since Git can track changes in just about any text file, you can use Git for more than maintaining and ...

At this point, everyone has already heard that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Acquisitions of this scale take time, but most expect everything to be official by 2019. The general opinion online seems to ...

Once you step foot in the note-taking landscape, you’ll be greeted with FOSS, freemium, and paid applications designed to help you record all your ideas. Whether you’re a self-hosting manic who ...

Version control is a fundamental tool in modern software development, enabling teams and individuals to track, manage, and collaborate on projects with confidence. Whether you're working on a simple ...

Microsoft has rolled its Git Virtual File System and Scalar optimizations into a fork of Git designed to support enormous repos and large distributed teams. Building applications at scale is nothing ...

The Jenkins Git Plugin is the cornerstone utility for connecting to both local and remote repositories, but the add-on provides much more than just a connection to source code repositories stored on ...

Git is a distributed version control system developed to manage Linux kernel source code, and GitHub, which hosts Git repositories, has over 100 million users. On the other hand, in the development of ...

Before that, Torvalds had been content to keep Linux's code straight by hand. But, by 1999, as developer Larry McVoy observed, Torvalds was on the verge of burning out. The problem? You couldn't scale ...

Early in his graduate career, John Blischak found himself creating figures for his advisor's grant application. Blischak was using the programming language R to generate the figures, and as he ...

How to write a git commit message properly is a topic that's been broached many times. Any seasoned developer who's rifled through Git logs in a project they've just been parachuted into knows that ...