Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t a fan of how GitHub’s web interface merges code, which he believes creates “absolutely useless garbage merges.” The commentary follows a pull request ...

That means doing merges from the command line, not using the entirely broken github web interface. So command line it is for Linus Torvalds then. Source: lkml ...

GitHub Spark is now live in public preview, and it builds working apps straight from plain English prompts. Microsoft launched the new tool under GitHub’s platform to make full-stack development ...

By Konrad M. Lawson April 16, 2013 This posting is the last in a series introducing the text hosting and version control service GitHub To continue reading for FREE, please sign in.

IDG Create a new repository on GitHub At this point, let’s follow the GitHub “Hello, World!” tutorial. It starts by showing you how to create a repository using the GitHub web interface.

A similar attack also took the service down back in 2012. The cause of today’s outage remains unclear, but it looks like it’s also affecting the GitHub web interface.

Bring your GitHub repository to the next level of functionality. For the past year since Microsoft has acquired GitHub, I've been hosting my Git repositories on a private server. Although I relished ...