InfoWorld

GitHub eyes restrictions on pull requests to rein in AI-based code deluge on maintainers

GitHub is weighing tighter pull request controls and AI-based filters after maintainers warned that a surge of low-quality, ...
The Register on MSN

GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop

Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away updated GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that ...
The Next Web

GitHub launches ‘draft’ pull requests to let developers discuss code before deploying

GitHub has added a new feature to pull requests, allowing developers to mark their requests as a draft. Marking a request as a draft allows the developer to highlight to other collaborators that their ...
The Register on MSN

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

Repo mirrors now open for business Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the ...

New Study: 90% of Large Code Changes Ship Without Any Code Review

Analysis of 802,979 GitHub pull requests reveals self-merge rates hit 71% while bot automation collapsed from 62% to ...
SecurityWeek

VS Code Configs Expose GitHub Codespaces to Attacks

Attackers can abuse VS Code configuration files for RCE when a GitHub Codespaces user opens a repository or pull request.
Ars Technica

GIT, Pull-requests and old branches

My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it to Main with a pull-request when it is ...