Imagine having a coding partner at your side who knows more languages than you, fully comprehends all the technical documentation, completely understands your codebase and is willing to do all the low ...

If you're just beginning programming, you've likely encountered the name "Git"—but what is it? And why do you need it? Git is the most important tool I use, next to my text editor, operating system, ...

GitHub's a great tool but it's definitely a little confusing the first time around (and, possibly, a few times after that). That's likely why GitHub created software (for OS X and Windows) to make the ...

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 ...

Inherently distributed in nature, every local commit made to a Git repo will make its way to the shared, central repository, as soon a developer issues a push command. But this isn't always ideal.

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet. It’s free, open-source and can handle anything ...