GitHub to replace master with main starting in October: What developers need to do now Your email has been sent From the office of “long overdue,” another service is dropping the divisive “master” ...

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,” ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As the Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide, I monitor the search terms that drive readers to the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Any programmer who practices branch based development strategy will inevitably end up with a ...

"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 ...

Working with branches in Git is quick and easy, and we're encouraged to do it frequently as good working practice. Because it is such a trivial process, a change of branch doesn't always stick in your ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

So recently there had been a few articles here on Ars talking about MS making contribution to git to make it scale, and how the big boys are all using mono-repo instead of split repos at some module ...

In this post, we will show you how to resolve Merge Conflicts in Git. Git allows developers to create branches from the main codebase to make independent changes. These changes can then be merged into ...

My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it to Main with a pull-request when it is ...