What it is known is that the hacker removes all source code and recent commits from vitcims' Git repositories, and leaves a ransom note behind that asks for a payment of 0.1 Bitcoin (~$570).

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.

Git, originally created for Linux kernel development, is open-source software that developers worldwide utilize to manage source code repositories, tarballs, and to track changes in files.

Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off on these commits as if they were ...

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. The ...

You can use a local Git repository, or work with Git in Azure Devops and Visual Studio Team Services. Code can be quickly branched for your own work, creating local branches from remote masters.

You need to make sure the owner of the repository you just created is the “git” user, or else you’ll get permission errors when you try to push code up to the server from your clients.

To accomplish this, he created web-git-sum. It’s a bash script that runs on git’s post-receive hook and generates only two files: a summary page and an index of the repository.

Note that the .zip file does not come with the .git directory in it (at least from BitBucket -- I don't know how github or gitlab behave in this respect) so there's no actual repo behind it; just ...

If you then look at the Git Reflog tab in the Git Repository Exploring perspective, you should see your commit recorded. Here you can see a line in the Staged area, waiting to be committed.