Best of GitHub Actions — October 2022

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   Community Picks·4y

   The Perfect Commit

   The Perfect Commit is a single, focused change that should be treated thoughtfully and with care. For things like web applications that can be deployed to production, a commit should be a unit that could be deployed.

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   DZone·4y

   Best Practices for Securing Your Repository

   The GitHub Marketplace was first introduced during the GitHub Universe in 2016. Navigate to the GitHub repository and have a look at how actively the maintainers and contributors are pushing into the project. Do they provide basic example usage, like a simple YAML file to start?

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   GitHub Blog·4y

   Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub

   Fine-grained personal access tokens give developers granular control over the permissions and repository access they grant to a PAT. Personal access tokens (PATs) are given permissions from a broad set of read and write scopes. They have access to all of the repositories and organizations the user could access. They’re not associated with an individual user who may leave your company or project.

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   TechCrunch·4y

   Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing

   Four years ago, Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub, which at the time was mostly a code repository. Today's GitHub looks quite a bit different, now that it added CI/CD tools with GitHub Actions and Codespaces as an online editor and compute platform, as well as various security tools and more.

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   GitHub Blog·4y

   Improving navigation for GitHub Actions

   GitHub Actions has evolved into its own product, helping developers set up their CI/CD pipelines. Today, we’re introducing an improved navigation that will support the future of GitHub Actions. Users can now find the Usage and Workflow file for their workflow run, right from the sidebar.

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