Until now, the most compelling reason to opt into the GitHub Pro paid product was because it enabled you to create a private repository. Developers could use GitHub's free offering -- with a ...

Stormy Peters, GitHub's VP of communities, is a believer that open source can improve the world. Firms like GitHub help eliminate barriers to creating software, Peters told Insider. This article is ...

GitHub is a code housing platform that allows developers to store their projects and network with peers. This resource about GitHub covers why the platform matters, how developers use it, and more.

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...