The Verge

GitHub had a major outage, but now says its services are ‘fully operational’

The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ that GitHub rolled back. The issues apparently popped up because of a ‘database infrastructure related change’ ...
TheServerSide

Git pull vs fetch: What's the difference?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If a developer finds out that there are new, updated files on a remote repository like GitHub, ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

After years of trying to educate developers to use pull_request_target securely, the platform finally implements stronger ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...
InfoQ

GitHub Targets Large Merge Problem with Stacked PRs

GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the ...