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So recently there had been a few articles here on Ars talking about MS making contribution to git to make it scale, and how the big boys are all using mono-repo instead of split repos at some module ...

GitHub to replace master with main starting in October: What developers need to do now Your email has been sent From the office of “long overdue,” another service is dropping the divisive “master” ...

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When I started out with Git I too was afraid of "losing history" when deleting a merged branch. With time, I've come to realise that any repository has things worth keeping for a long time (tags for ...

GitHub, the version tracking and collaboration platform for developers, has proven quite popular, especially with the open source crowd. There's been one glaring issue with the dev hub, though -- lack ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...