Developers who want a safe space to host their code repositories, and to distribute their programs to users, tend to choose GitHub, and rightfully so. The platform is home to over 65 million ...

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 ...

Code-hosting website GitHub is rolling out today a new security feature named Code Scanning for all users, on both paid and free accounts. GitHub says the new Code Scanning feature "helps prevent ...

GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is ...

If you need to undo a git push, you only have two options: revert the pushed commit or reset it. The option you choose to undo a pushed commit depends on the following three factors: How much control ...

Protect your code commits from malicious changes by GPG-signing them. Often when people talk about GPG, they focus on encryption—GPG's ability to protect a file or message so that only someone who has ...

The metadata that developers look at when deciding whether to use an open source project on GitHub can be easily forged and gives attackers a way to trick users of the platform into downloading ...

Hackers are breaching GitHub accounts and inserting malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions to steal authentication secrets and passwords from developers. The campaign unfolded in July ...