Update to the latest version and monitor for unexpected .git directories in non-repository folders, developers are told.

The OS X command line developer tools include an old version of the Git source code management system that exposes Mac users to remote code execution attacks. The Git client allows developers to ...

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Microsoft announced on January 30 its roadmap for adding support for Git to its Visual Studio development-tool suite and Team Foundation app-lifecycle-management technologies. Cue flying pigs -- or ...

Git stash is a built-in command that stores, or stashes, changes in the software development tool Git that aren't yet ready to be committed. When a developer runs the git stash command, Git stores all ...

To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...

I’ve been a Subversion (SVN) user going on 9 years now. It’s been a great solution for source control throughout my career and I’ve implemented it at each stop along the way. It’s easy, reliable, and ...