Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As with all git tutorials, this one will start off with a clean repository and an empty working ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

In this post, we will show you how to merge two branches in Git. Branching allows multiple developers to work independently and simultaneously on the same codebase. Developers often create branches to ...

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, ...

While there are dozens of get-started guides for Git and users of GitHub see a “pro tip” every time they refresh GitHub.com, it’s still not easy to find a collection of useful tips for developers who ...