An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking ...

The growing use of distributed version-control systems can't be ignored in your enterprise; plan ahead to keep your developers happy in 2011 Forking is often viewed as a last resort for software ...

Wired takes a look at the origins of GitHub, from the beginnings of the Git version control software in 2005, to the company’s current roster of 1.3 million users. Wired takes a look at the origins of ...

GitHub is Microsoft's code-hosting platform that lets users collaborate on open-source projects. GitHub has a free version, and several tiers of paid subscription versions. GitHub is extremely popular ...

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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 ...

GITHUB IS NOT a household name. But the American company, which is the world’s largest repository of open-source software, provides vital digital infrastructure on which much of the ...