Jack Wallen shows how to use the .gitconfig file for global git configurations and a more efficient developer setup.

Tools like Flux and Argo CD are the linchpins that constantly sync Git state with live environments. Flux operates with a ...

Git configuration Before you perform a commit on any Git repository, provide a username and email address so the tool can track who is doing what. With a standard Git installation, you would do this ...

Hackers have stolen tens of thousands of cloud account credentials, by abusing exposed Git configuration files, experts have claimed. Git configuration files are where Git saves different ...

Simply call the ‘git config’ command with the edit flag and the scope of interest to create the Git config files. Even if developers don’t actually add any content during the edit, issuing the command ...

About 4,800 unique IP addresses were scanned for exposed Git configuration files in a single day to steal sensitive secrets and tokens.

CISA urges federal agencies to immediately patch an exploited arbitrary file write vulnerability in Git that leads to remote ...

Threat actors are intensifying internet-wide scanning for Git configuration files that can reveal sensitive secrets and authentication tokens used to compromise cloud services and source code ...

When you use Git to clone a repository, some configuration elements are also intentionally left out to prevent remote servers from fetching and executing code on remote systems.