GitHub is great for pushing a big project forward, but not always great to get everyone on the same track. That’s why the company is introducing templates. The goal is to help everyone move in the ...

Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot's ability to stick ads - what it calls "tips" - into any pull request that invokes its name.  Australian developer Zach Manson noted on ...

GitHub Copilot "helped" with pull requests by unsolicitedly providing tips on commercial products. GitHub has since disabled ...

GitHub is mitigating an ongoing incident causing problems with multiple services, including performing pull requests, creating or viewing issues, and even viewing repositories and commits. "We are ...

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GitHub highlighted improvements to its Visual Studio Code extension that lets developers manage pull requests from the open source code repository with a few clicks from within the code editor. The ...

My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it to Main with a pull-request when it is ...

Last week, product manager Camilla Moraes opened a GitHub community discussion to address "a critical issue affecting the open source community: the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that ...

Evidence that gender bias exists in the field of computer science has emerged in the form of a new study examining acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software ...