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Get Git Info with GitLens

GitLens is a popular extension built for Visual Studio Code that helps developers extract the powerful insights hidden within Git code repositories. This VS Code extension makes development effortless by providing tools to quickly glance through, compare, and track each line of a code. It also helps address the drawbacks and intrusiveness of native Git features in large-scale projects.

GitHub Browser check synchronization goes into public beta

One of our goals here at Checkly is to make it easier for developers to ship excellent software. But let’s face it, getting features out is only a tiny fraction of the story. Fast-moving development teams also break things. And the more things you build, the more things can go wrong. And trust me, they will. This is where API and end-to-end monitoring helps. Define automated test suites that check all your properties constantly and guarantee that everything’s up and running. All the time.

Shell Scripting FTW! | Intro to the CLI Part 5

In previous articles in our Intro to the CLI series, we’ve gone over why to master using the command line, some command line basics and tools, and tips for customizing your CLI shell. In case you missed any, feel free to catch up using the links below. And now, you’re going to learn the basics of shell scripting to automate complex jobs and build entirely new applications!

Monitor your GitHub Actions workflows with Datadog CI Visibility

GitHub Actions provides tooling to automate and manage custom CI/CD workflows straight from your repositories, so you can build, test, and deliver application code at high velocity. Using Actions, any webhook can serve as an event trigger, allowing you, for example, to automatically build and test code for each pull request. Datadog CI Visibility now provides end-to-end visibility into your GitHub Actions pipelines, helping you maintain their health and performance.

Pushing a project to GitHub

GitHub is a web-based platform used for project version control and codebase hosting. GitHub uses Git, a widely-used version control system. GitLab and Bitbucket are similar tools. Using GitHub is a prerequisite of most tutorials on the CircleCI blog, so it is helpful to learn to use it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to push a project to GitHub.

Announcing GitLab support on CircleCI

Today we are pleased to announce GitLab support on CircleCI. Teams using GitLab SaaS can now build, test, and deploy on CircleCI, and access CircleCI’s most popular features like Docker layer caching and automatic test-splitting. GitLab is now the third version control system we support, in addition to GitHub and Bitbucket.

How to use GitHub Actions securely

GitHub is one of the most popular source control platforms available. It relies on Git concepts, and millions of developers use it. GitHub Actions embrace all aspects of what source control needs, such as branching, pull requests, feature flags, and versioning. It also integrates nicely into third-party continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines or deployment tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, and Octopus Deploy.