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GitHub, Inc.
Image Image
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Collaborative version control
Available inEnglish
FoundedFebruary 8, 2008; 18 years ago (2008-02-08) (as Logical Awesome LLC)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
  • Tom Preston-Werner
  • Chris Wanstrath
  • P. J. Hyett
  • Scott Chacon
CEONat Friedman
Key people
  • Erica Brescia (COO)
  • Carrie Olesen (CHRO)
  • Mike Taylor (CFO)
IndustrySoftware
ParentMicrosoft
RegistrationOptional (required for creating and joining projects)
Users100 million (Jan 2023)[1]
LaunchedApril 10, 2008; 18 years ago (2008-04-10)
Current statusActive
Written inRuby

GitHub is an online software development assistance and version control service.[2][3][4][5][6] This platform uses Git.[7] It is operated by GitHub, Inc. based in the United States.

In January 2020, GitHub reported that they have more than 40 million users[8] and more than 100 million repositories[9] (including at least 28 million public repositories).[10] Therefore, it is recognized as the largest host of source code in the world.[11]

Organizational users

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Currently, there are many individual GitHub users. On the other hand, there are also organizational users such as educational institutions[12][13][14] and companies. The following companies are using GitHub to distribute open source projects:

Desktop version

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GitHub was made for users who want to save their programs on their web browsers. But there is also a desktop version known as GitHub Desktop.[23]

GitHub Pages

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All GitHub users can create websites with the github.io domain. This service is known as GitHub Pages.[24] The development history of the HTML code will be recorded with Git.

Similar services

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Today, there are several GitHub like services for developers. Some of them use Git but have different interface with unique web-design. One of the most famous GitHub rival is GitLab.[25][26] This is also based on Git. Users can export their programs on GitHub to GitLab.

References

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  1. ↑ "100 million developers and counting". 25 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Dabbish, L., Stuart, C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012, February). Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on computer supported cooperative work (pp. 1277-1286).
  3. ↑ Pipinellis, A. (2018). GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub. Packt Publishing Ltd.
  4. ↑ Mergel, I. (2015). Open collaboration in the public sector: The case of social coding on GitHub. Government Information Quarterly, 32(4), 464-472.
  5. ↑ Beer, B. (2018). Introducing GitHub: A non-technical guide. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
  6. ↑ Dawson, C., & Straub, B. (2016). Building Tools with GitHub: Customize Your Workflow. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
  7. ↑ Blischak, J. D., Davenport, E. R., & Wilson, G. (2016). A quick introduction to version control with Git and GitHub. PLoS computational biology, 12(1), e1004668.
  8. ↑ "User search". GitHub. Retrieved Jan 29, 2019. Showing 40,206,691 available users
  9. ↑ "GitHub passes 100 million repositories". VentureBeat. 2018-11-08. Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  10. ↑ "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Showing 28,177,992 available repository results
  11. ↑ Gousios, Georgios; Vasilescu, Bogdan; Serebrenik, Alexander; Zaidman, Andy. "Lean GHTorrent: GitHub Data on Demand" (PDF). The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology & †Eindhoven University of Technology: 1. Retrieved July 9, 2014. During recent years, GITHUB (2008) has become the largest code host in the world. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ↑ Griffin, T., & Seals, S. (2013). Github in the classroom: Not just for group projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 28(4), 74-74.
  13. ↑ Fiksel, J., Jager, L. R., Hardin, J. S., & Taub, M. A. (2019). Using GitHub Classroom To Teach Statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 27(2), 110-119.
  14. ↑ Angulo, M. A., & Aktunc, O. (2019). Using GitHub as a teaching tool for programming courses. In ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Meeting 2018 Papers. American Society for Engineering Education.
  15. ↑ github.com/facebook
  16. ↑ github.com/google-research
  17. ↑ github.com/IBM
  18. ↑ github.com/microsoft
  19. ↑ github.com/microsoftopensource
  20. ↑ github.com/Microsoft-OpenSource-Labs
  21. ↑ github.com/TeXUsersGroup
  22. ↑ github.com/WolframResearch
  23. ↑ Van Strien, D. (2016). An Introduction to Version Control Using GitHub Desktop. The Programming Historian.
  24. ↑ Owen, D. (2017). Using GitHub pages for a computer science course website: conference tutorial. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 32(3), 36-36.
  25. ↑ Van Baarsen, J. (2014). GitLab Cookbook. Packt Publishing Ltd.
  26. ↑ O'grady, A. (2018). GitLab Quick Start Guide: Migrate to GitLab for all your repository management solutions. Packt Publishing Ltd.
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