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Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

Sometimes the best way to cope with scale is to keep things simple and do everything you can to avoid it. This is the approach that GitHub, the repository service for the popular Git source version ...

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub. Git is a software platform mainly used by computer ...

Git stash is a built-in command that stores, or stashes, changes in the software development tool Git that aren't yet ready to be committed. When a developer runs the git stash command, Git stores all ...

The cool and popular GitHub source-code sharing site just got a little easier to use. On Monday, GitHub released its first client for Windows, giving users an easier way to set up a Git source-code ...

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 ...

After Twitter caught wind of its source code being leaked on GitHub, the only thing on the company’s mind was revenge. Now, Twitter has an ace up its sleeve as the US District Court for the Northern ...

GitHub has served as a backbone of the open source development community, but a group of developers says the company's ICE ...

Linus Torvalds: “Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder.” Your email has been sent Recently some neighbor kids asked me what I do for a living. “I read and write emails,” I told them. They ...