WHAT'S GOING ON AT...GITHUB: GitHub reveals how it open-sourced GitHub Docs, which was an unusual challenge for the team given that – unlike other projects the platform has open-sourced – it's a repository containing GitHub's product documentation and the web app powering it.
- To make everything public while still being able to work privately on product releases about to be launched, GitHub created two git repositories (one public, one private) and reached out to the founder of the Pull app, a GitHub App the team found on GitHub Marketplace designed to automate the task of keeping a forked repo up to date with its upstream repo.
- The Pull app founder agreed to collaborate with GitHub to build Repo Sync, a similar open-source tool that contains...
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