GitHub is the world’s largest and most popular platform for version control and collaborative software development. At its ...

GitHub has become so ubiquitous that you might think Git is an interchangeable shorthand. But the two are very different, and alternatives to each are available, if not quite as popular.

Git and GitHub enable programmers to work collaboratively and keep track of different versions of their software. Learning Git is essential if you want to be an advanced developer. We show how to ...

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

If the repository is public, using the HTTPS URL for cloning it won’t need any authentication – in fact, on GitHub and GitLab, you can git clone the repository URL as you see it in your browser.

GitHub renamed the master branch to main for any Git repository, as it addresses cultural change like so many organizations that have nixed master-slave terminology in a time of social unrest.