News briefs for January 8, 2019. GitHub's CEO Nat Friedman yesterday announced that free accounts now can create private repositories (previously only paid accounts could have private repositories).

Ever since they became a standard offering on a free tier, private GitHub repositories have become popular with developers. However, many developers become ...

The software collaboration platform recently acquired by Microsoft has made a significant change to its free offering: you can now create unlimited private repositories on the platform for free. Late ...

Need to create a new Git repository? Then you'll need to learn how to use the git init command, because that's the only way to create a new Git repo. A Git repository is the heart and soul of Git.

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub. Git is a software platform mainly used by computer ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...