The Git working tree is comprised of files in their present state as they exist on the file system. The Git index -- to which files are staged -- is the second dimension. A commit of the staged files ...

Ran into a strange issue with git. A dev's commit to a project disappeared a day later (we know the that the commit occurred from the Jenkins build email). The commit was missing from the dev's ...

What is git cherry-pick? According to the official git documentation, the goal of a cherry-pick is to “ apply the changes introduced by some existing commit.” Essentially, a cherry-pick will look at a ...

The tree hash references another file under .git/objects which contains the index of the root directory of the files in the commit. In the example above, the tree hash is ...

Protect your code commits from malicious changes by GPG-signing them. Often when people talk about GPG, they focus on encryption—GPG's ability to protect a file or message so that only someone who has ...

GitHub is constantly being bombarded with malware, as hackers employ typosquatting, impersonation, and outright fraud, to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of legitimate code.

Windows switch to Git almost complete: 8,500 commits and 1,760 builds each day The Windows team's migration to Git is almost complete.