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GitHub Security Best Practices

Managing a project on GitHub has its challenges. For many, mastering the entire Git workflow alone is enough to keep them busy for quite some time. However, beyond the basics of pulling, merging, commenting, and rebasing, super important security details loom like specters on the horizon, threatening to eradicate your

How do you automate a pull request?

A pull request makes communication, edits, and debugging more manageable through separate repositories that receive updates from the main repository. Enacting a pull request, though, can be time-consuming. Fortunately, developers can streamline the cumbersome process via pull request automation. Find out how you can expedite daily workflow through an intuitive

CI/CD

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) play an instrumental role in most modern software development processes, allowing teams to push critical changes and updates into production code without overlooking vulnerabilities. Both of these components of modern development workflows improve code quality while empowering teams to maintain a consistent release

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Why Is CI/CD Important in a DevOps Lifecycle?

Fine-tuning the software development cycle is an ongoing process. You can never perfect it, but you can make continuous improvements. Having a CI/CD best practice in place is one way to streamline the cycle and improve overall efficiency. What is CI/CD?CI/CD refers to a set of

Git

Git Commit vs Push: What’s the Difference?

Many coders have used Git at one point or another. In fact, for most, it’s the version control system of choice since it's open-source and easy to use. A common discussion that comes up is Git commit vs push, or more specifically, how the two commands differ. In this

Startup

How to Increase Software Developer Efficiency?

There isn’t a universal formula for software developer efficiency. If there were, sprint cycles wouldn’t be so chaotic with the next deadline always looming like a dark cloud. There are, however, tried and proven strategies for maximizing efficiency in software development. Consider these implementations for your next sprint

Git

How to Merge Branches to Main in Git

Merging is at the core of the version control system Git's feature set. Git is a powerhouse for pushing code improvements and modifications from a local work environment to a remote production server or public repository. However, completing a seemingly simple merge can quickly become a chore if issues arise.

GitHub

GitHub vs. GitLab

Organizations and individuals all around the world use both GitHub and GitLab to help consolidate and streamline their development activities. GitHub boasts an impressive worldwide audience comprised not only of enterprises but local governing bodies as well. A comprehensive list hosted on github.com shows over 1,000 government agencies

GitHub

How to Compare Two Branches in GitHub

GitHub offers a ton of value through its git-complementing feature set. In fact, without the use of GitHub, it’s likely that quite a lot of distributed development teams would struggle to meet modern demands and make deadlines on a regular basis. However, between Git and GitHub, there are numerous

Git

How to Undo a Merge in Git

Merging is essential to every developer's workflow in Git. Without merging, your codebase would wither as contributors come up empty-handed when it comes time to mix their work in with what has already been published. Merging makes this all possible. But merging can also make for a mean headache if

GitHub

How to Push to GitHub: A Short Guide

GitHub has done quite a lot for the developer community over the years, facilitating the kind of collaboration on code that modern dev projects simply could not survive without. GitHub ships tens of thousands of improvements per year to help keep dev teams all over the world from waking up

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4 CI/CD Best Practices

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) offer software development teams a holistic means of meeting more milestones in less time. This is generally accomplished by simplifying complex and tedious, yet overwhelmingly redundant tasks through targeted automation. Once simplified, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment processes work to support development initiatives

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The 7 Best CI/CD Tools in 2021

CI/CD tools can take your team to the next level of automated efficiency, effectively eliminating the need to manually test and review new features before they are merged with your main codebase and delivered to production environments. However, choosing the best option for your team takes careful planning. Below,

Startup

Launching our Startup Program

Today, Mergify is proud to announce its Startup Program, aiming to help every startup scale its business and become more prominent. Why are we launching a Startup Program?At Mergify, we know what it is to be a startup. We know how hard it is to find a place for

GitHub Branch Protection: What It Is and Why It Matters

GitHub offers a great deal of flexibility for more collaborative development among more widely distributed teams. Now, anyone can work together on a single codebase without losing track of other contributors’ progress in relation to their own. However, this flexibility can actually prove to be more of a problem than