It’s been four years to the day since Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub, which at the time was mostly a code repository. Today’s GitHub looks quite a bit different, now that it added ...

Microsoft acquired GitHub, a popular code-repository service used by many developers and large companies, for $7.5 billion in stock. The deal, which heightened Microsoft’s focus on open-source ...

Of course, any project hosted on GitHub that expects a master branch to exist will run into problems. For example, if a developer creates a new repository with GitHub's own Jekyll-based website ...

How to use the GitHub URL. To find and use a GitHub URL, follow these steps: On the GitHub website, click on your repository of interest. Locate the green button named Code and click on it. The GitHub ...