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 ...

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I’d like to use the Git and GitHub programming tools on my Mac. Are they easy to learn? Git, along with its popular web-based companion GitHub, sits alongside popular programming languages such as ...

The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gitless, an experimental version control system built atop Git, could make life easier for developers who find Git difficult to use. “Many people complain that Git is hard to use,” the project’s web ...

The OS X command line developer tools include an old version of the Git source code management system that exposes Mac users to remote code execution attacks. The Git client allows developers to ...