All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" starting October 1, 2020. ... renaming the default branch today causes a set of challenges," GitHub explained in a ...

Both personal and organizational accounts on the code-hosting site will get unlimited private repos and a simplified pricing structure ...

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface.

They said the attack “impacts more than 100,000 GitHub repositories. ... their malicious version instead of the real one,” Wednesday’s post explained. ... Diagram showing the three phases ...

Of course, any project hosted on GitHub that expects a master branch to exist will run into problems. For example, if a developer creates a new repository with GitHub's own Jekyll-based website ...