GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code.

The “force push” command of the Git open-source software, which is at the core of GitHub, can force the software to overwrite existing code irrevocably.

GitHub's secret scanning alerts are available on all public repositories, and its push protection is now offered for custom secret patterns.

On April 4, the Microsoft-owned code repository said the GitHub Advanced Security suite has now been upgraded with a new push protection feature to prevent the leak of secrets that could ...

In fact, one of the main uses for GitHub Actions could be pushing code for those final projects from GitHub to run on cloud services such as Amazon, Google, and, yes, Microsoft Azure.

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why.