If we look across the landscape of collaborative writing on the web, there are a few clearly discernible hubs of activity. Wikipedia and Google Docs might be identified as two of them, but one the ...

Compare Git stash, reset, and clean to revert tracked files, clear staged changes, and remove untracked files without overlooking important data. Follow practical Git commands for cloning a repository ...

A few weeks ago Brian wrote a great post on “Forking Your Syllabus.” Borrowing from discussions with syllabi could learn a trick or two from GitHub. GitHub is a ...

An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking ...

This is a few days old, but evidently there is still need for this message: Konstantin Ryabitsev explains how it is easy to cause a commit to appear falsely to be part of a GitHub repository: With all ...