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Use the github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.useInstructionFiles setting in Visual Studio Code to automatically add instructions to the commit messages generated by GitHub Copilot.

Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.

Here’s how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.

Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.

GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.

GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we've added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.

Another integration between Azure DevOps and GitHub is in work planning and tracking, or project management if you like.

Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.

GitHub and cyberattackers are waging a quiet, automated war over malicious repos.

On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users.

GitHub limits the size of files you can track in regular Git repositories. Learn how to track or remove files that are beyond the limit.

Here's how to migrate from utterances to giscus without loosing existing comments on single or multiple pages.

What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.

This took a lot of chasing down to work out, so hopefully I can save you some time

High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.

GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant that launched in preview last year, will become generally available for all developers this summer. Microsoft has announced that the service will be free for Build 2022 attendees, students, and verified open-source contributors. GitHub Copilot is a ...

Collaborators can decide whether to accept or reject your pull request. They may also request for some changes. This video shows you what process looks like.

Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you.

GitHub recently released github.dev, which allows you to press . on any repo in order to open it in...

Let's take a look at how you can add code metrics and diagrams for your open-source .NET repositories with GitHub Actions.

The announcement comes weeks after one of GitHub's most prominent competitors, GitLab, went public. GitLab was worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub.

On March 8, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com. In this post we share technical details of the vulnerability and steps we're taking to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. 

I've started using Discord more and more for things like my private group coaching program focused on software developers.

GitHub announced yesterday that the company's new mobile application for Google Android and Apple iOS has been released as a stable version for both operating systems.

Discord's built in Webhooks function as an easy way to get automated messages and data updates sent to a text channel in your server....

Software bots can assist developers in all phases of the development process. Here, we present a selection of the most useful bots you can start using right away to develop and maintain your (open source) project

Developers can now collaborate from anywhere using GitHub app in Microsoft Teams! GitHub app in Teams support Tab, Messaging Extension, Bot and Personal app capabilities.

A little known but very useful feature on GitHub that provides a lightweight way to suggest a small change.