Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch a dangerous vulnerability in the Git source code versioning software.

PHP official code base migrated to GitHub As a precaution following this incident, PHP maintainers have decided to migrate the official PHP source code repository to GitHub.

To manage source code for its Android open-source project, there are strong signs Google will pick the tool Linus Torvalds created to run Linux.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

But what the heck is GitHub and why are developers so excited about it? You may have heard that GitHub is a code sharing and publishing service, or that it's a social networking site for programmers.