GitHub
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Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | Collaborative version control |
Available in | English |
Founded | February 8, 2008 | (as Logical Awesome LLC)
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) |
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CEO | Nat Friedman |
Key people |
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Industry | Software |
Parent | Microsoft |
Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining projects) |
Users | 100 million (Jan 2023)[1] |
Launched | April 10, 2008 |
Current status | Active |
Written in | Ruby |
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
[change | change source]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:
- Facebook[15]
- Google Research (research facility of Google)[16]
- IBM[17]
- Microsoft[18][19][20]
- TeX Users Group (A community for LaTeX users)[21]
- Wolfram Research (developer of Wolfram Mathematica)[22]
Desktop version
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]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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GitHub username (P2037) (see uses)
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- ↑ https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Pipinellis, A. (2018). GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub. Packt Publishing Ltd.
- ↑ Mergel, I. (2015). Open collaboration in the public sector: The case of social coding on GitHub. Government Information Quarterly, 32(4), 464-472.
- ↑ Beer, B. (2018). Introducing GitHub: A non-technical guide. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
- ↑ Dawson, C., & Straub, B. (2016). Building Tools with GitHub: Customize Your Workflow. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "User search". GitHub. Retrieved Jan 29, 2019.
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- ↑ "GitHub passes 100 million repositories". VentureBeat. 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
- ↑ "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
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- ↑ 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.
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(help) - ↑ Griffin, T., & Seals, S. (2013). Github in the classroom: Not just for group projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 28(4), 74-74.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ github
.com /facebook - ↑ github
.com /google-research - ↑ github
.com /IBM - ↑ github
.com /microsoft - ↑ github
.com /microsoftopensource - ↑ github
.com /Microsoft-OpenSource-Labs - ↑ github
.com /TeXUsersGroup - ↑ github
.com /WolframResearch - ↑ Van Strien, D. (2016). An Introduction to Version Control Using GitHub Desktop. The Programming Historian.
- ↑ Owen, D. (2017). Using GitHub pages for a computer science course website: conference tutorial. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 32(3), 36-36.
- ↑ Van Baarsen, J. (2014). GitLab Cookbook. Packt Publishing Ltd.
- ↑ O'grady, A. (2018). GitLab Quick Start Guide: Migrate to GitLab for all your repository management solutions. Packt Publishing Ltd.