Content to read to assimilate the basics of software development but also to follow and understand the trends.
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
Best Practices
GitHub Actions are a collection of tools that help you streamline your development workflows through automation. These actions are event-driven, meaning they’ll trigger upon certain things happening. There are tons of GitHub Actions you can use—here are some of the best. 1. Checkout Everybody knows about Checkout [https:
Product Features
Do you happen to know the common point between the open-source Node.js and Rust projects, the sporty social network Strava, the e-commerce company Shopify and the ride-hailing company Uber? Their engineering team all rely on a merge queue. Well, if you never heard of such a concept, you might
Best Practices
Once developers have completed work on project features and you’ve approved their pull requests [https://blog.mergify.com/what-is-a-pull-request/], it’s time to merge those requests into the main project repository. When doing so, Git has to find a base commit shared by two or more commits and then
Basic Knowledge
A fundamental aspect of working on open-source projects is separating bug fixes, feature developments, and similar tasks into separate branches. Doing so lets developers experiment with code solutions free of the worry of messing things up in the main repository. However, these offshoot branches must be merged into the main
Versus
One of the most well-known and often-used git tools, the pull request is often also referred to as a merge request. These git-based requests are often utilized to promote cooperation and collaboration between software team members. They’re normally a required feature used by mid-sized or large teams. But what’
Basic Knowledge
If you're a video gamer and think you're not up to the task of launching a startup, think twice. At Mergify, we've been heavy video game players for the last couple of decades, and we think differently. Here's one thing we learned
Basic Knowledge
Most software projects are developed through collaboration—whether between a software team building a product or among individual developers creating an open-source project. Developers need a way to experiment with and isolate changes, such as new features, separate from the project. This makes it easy to track, discuss, and reverse