When your git commit history gets long in the tooth, and you want to clean up your feature and topic branches before the merge to master, you’ll need the facilities of the Git squash commit feature.

GitHub has announced the release of GitHub Desktop 2.9. New features include the ability to squash and reorder commits, amend previous commits, and start new branches from earlier commits.

Another is that they didn't have to learn how to use git commands. The downside is innumerable regressions as emailed commits overwrote previous code without a merge/diff/conflict process.

Clear up the confusion on the Git reflog vs. log debate. Git reflog tracks local commits on a repository while Git log tracks the entire commit history of a public repository.

The workflow is straightforward, push a new commit to your main branch on GitHub, and the action will trigger, building a few different versions.

GitHub says that over 700,000 secrets across thousands of private repositories have been detected to date. If push protection is enabled, a scan will check for high-confidence leak patterns.

Windows switch to Git almost complete: 8,500 commits and 1,760 builds each day The Windows team's migration to Git is almost complete.