Data from private and deleted forks can be easily retrieved and directly accessed if a rogue third party knows the SHA-1 hash related to a commit. Every single commit saved on GitHub database ...

GitHub has started supporting multiple commit authors. The new feature is meant to improve collaboration from several developers on the same commits or pulls requests and ensures every author gets att ...

The commit itself was flagged as apparently being made by user Nat—aka Nat Friedman, the current CEO of GitHub. Much like the content of the commit, this is misleading—Git itself, the source ...

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.