GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

Online version control platform GitHub announced Wednesday it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification. Specifically, GitHub is aligned with the FedRAMP ...

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

I’ve been a Subversion (SVN) user going on 9 years now. It’s been a great solution for source control throughout my career and I’ve implemented it at each stop along the way. It’s easy, reliable, and ...

Microsoft announced on January 30 its roadmap for adding support for Git to its Visual Studio development-tool suite and Team Foundation app-lifecycle-management technologies. Cue flying pigs -- or ...

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,” ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

It is very easy to see exactly what changed. So even if you don’t work in a team, there are advantages to having source code under control. If you are already using a more advanced IDE, Git is ...

In the first part of this series on migrating from SVN to Git I talked about the reasons why we decided to make the switch. Now I’d like to talk about how you can migrate an existing project under SVN ...