GitHub users are often surprised that their project wiki won't be indexed by Google. But the Git-based cloud service does offer an alternative. If someone needs a website hosting service, they can ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete, and former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman is now in charge of the cloud code management service. It wasn’t a surprising acquisition: Over the last few years, ...

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,” ...

When the Ebola outbreak in West Africa picked up pace in July 2014, Caitlin Rivers started to collect data on the people affected. Rivers, then a PhD student in computational epidemiology, wanted to ...

Andreessen Horowitz announced a whopping $100 million investment in GitHub this week. You can read commentary and speculation all over the web about what GitHub will do with the money, whether this ...

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 ...

Azure DevOps and GitHub are both developer collaboration tools owned by Microsoft. Despite these similarities, the two DevOps tools are far from interchangeable. Developers in need of a software ...

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GitHub unveiled an open-source dev kit designed to help developers adopt spec-driven development with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Gemini CLI, moving beyond quick "vibe-coding" ...

Microsoft acquired GitHub, a popular code-repository service used by many developers and large companies, for $7.5 billion in stock. The deal, which heightened Microsoft’s focus on open-source ...