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Basic Knowledge
GitHub allows developers around the world to streamline their development pipelines and maintain a solid history of their projects even while collaborating with many other individuals and teams. However, Git can only take a team so far; it’s a tool that can be used effectively or ineffectively, depending on
Technical
While Linus Torvalds is well-known for Linux, he's also reputed for not having his tongue in his pocket. He is often complaining loudly about what he thinks is wrong or damageable to the industry. As the creator of Git 15 years ago, it's interesting to hear
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To get the most out of GitHub, it helps to choose the right tools. Developer productivity tools abound, but not all of them are worth adopting to improve your workflow. You can use the best productivity tools for programmers to enhance almost any part of your development process, including getting
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I remember officially switching my professional career from being a Linux system administrator to a Python software engineer. It was ten years ago when I decided that rebooting servers was dull. Watching the software engineering team working next to me, seeing them doing git commit -a -m 'friday night
Tutorials
GitHub makes collaborating with many different people on a single piece of code or software much easier by managing the details involved in version control alongside your project's evolving history. This makes it especially useful for comparing code changes as they come in and sorting out differences between
Basic Knowledge
Choosing a distribution license for the software you publish on GitHub can seem confusing at first. After all, there are quite literally hundreds of licenses [https://spdx.org/licenses/] to choose from, all of which are suitable for different purposes and grant users of your code unique rights. For first-time
Changelog
The second quarter of 2021 has finished. As usual, we got pretty busy and shipped a lot of new features. This quarter has been marked by a massive increase in our number of users and, therefore, our workload. We spent quite some time preparing for significant improvements in our processing
Best Practices
Adopting the right code review best practices can drastically speed up your review process while also improving the quality of your reviews. Often enough, code reviews can become areas of contention among members of your team, prompting them to become defensive about work they’ve done or changes they may
Tutorials
GitHub merge methods can be tough to choose correctly. Implementing the wrong merge method on your project's main branch can detract from your team's ability to follow along and contribute. In other words, using the wrong merge method for the occasion defeats the entire purpose of
Tutorials
Good commit messages make a big difference in your team's ability to stay on top of changes to your codebase. However, coming up with useful and understandable messages is often easier said than done, especially when you’re hard at work. Luckily, there are a few tricks to
Tutorials
Managing security updates on GitHub can get hectic in a hurry as third-party dependencies develop at their own pace, separate from your project. Leaving vulnerable dependencies unpatched can open your entire application up to otherwise avoidable threats, but manually reviewing and merging such updates can quickly eat up all of