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.

This Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners teaches how to use these source code version control tools that are at the heart of modern app development.

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.

Git is also the version control standard for GitHub and other source code management systems, and it is widely used with within devops to implement CI/CD.