So, that makes us think, Microsoft, being a major player in the tech industry, does not have a capable infrastructure to ward off bots without restricting access to the code? Is there no other way to protect the code from bots and other malicious scrapers without disabling the search functionality?

Still have your code on Microsoft Github?

Now that I’ve provided you with an introduction to Git and a brief overview of using Git with GitHub, it’s time to build on that knowledge by taking a closer look at one workflow often used when collaborating with Git. The “fork and branch” workflow is a common way of collaborating on open source projects using Git and GitHub. In this post, I’m going to walk through this workflow (as I understand it—I’m constantly learning), with a focus toward helping those that are new to this sort of thing.