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Regarding this outage, some netizens claimed that, due to the pandemic, servers in various regions had been stolen. However, this claim has now been debunked — it was just a Photoshopped image.
Yesterday GitHub suffered a large-scale outage. Microsoft responded that, due to the pandemic, servers in various regions had been stolen. Microsoft also said it is doing everything it can to recover the servers and hopes to retrieve the servers and data as soon as possible.
GitHub Actions is a continuous integration service launched by GitHub in October 2018. I used Travis CI before; yesterday I tried GitHub Actions and found it more powerful with more to play with, so I'll share my first impressions.
Why do I say don't over-rely on or blindly trust unit tests? It starts with a merge request. GitHub's Dependabot keeps your application secure and always up to date, meaning it automatically creates merge requests to change my Maven dependency versions. And so the story begins.
The well-known game company EA (Electronic Arts) made a splash on GitHub, open-sourcing part of the source code of two games in the Command & Conquer series! The two games are: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.
Have you ever complained at work about other people's messy commits — no note on why or what each commit did? When contributing to open-source projects on GitHub, if your commit doesn't follow their template, your merge request won't be accepted. Messy commits not only affect others; at release time the changelog should be auto-generated, but commits not written per the rules can't be tallied automatically. So today I'll write about how to commit gracefully on Git and auto-generate the changelog. This article only focuses on the posture of committing; the commit command and other topics are not discussed for now.
Dash is an API documentation browser and code snippet manager. Dash helps you store snippets of code, and instantly search and browse docs for almost any API you might use.
After learning Git, many of you are eager to act — you have opinions on open source projects, or you've found bugs and optimizations. But how do you contribute your code to an open source project? Today I'll show you how to share your code elegantly.
