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GitHub Overview

What is GitHub?

GitHub is where the world builds software. Millions of individuals, organizations and businesses around the world use GitHub to discover, share, and contribute software. Developers at startups to Fortune 50 companies use GitHub, every step of the way.

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GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over two million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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GitHub delivers everything best-in-class organizations need to bring new ideas to market, from concept to customer. The complete developer experience blends the best of your team and the open-source community to create unmatched customer experiences fast and securely.


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GitHub Inc. provides code hosting services. It allows users to share codes with friends, co-workers, classmates, and strangers; offers control system for the collaborative development of software; allows users to fork, send pull requests, and manage various public and private repositories; and offers collaborator management, wikis, downloads, code review, and graphs. The company allows individuals and team members to discuss about codes; and track and assign issues to other teammates. GitHub Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.


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Chinmay G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool for data storage and collaborative tool"
Ability to store share codes, scripts, configs and easy to collaborate across teams Anyone can access and edit remotely and version control effici...
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"Github makes version control with Salesforce development easy when using Github and Prodly"
Github is secure, easy to use, integrates well with Prodly (Salesforce CI/CD tool), and is constantly improving their solutions.
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Lautaro S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"I managed to streamline all our code and improved its quality"
All my work as a Developer has changed since GitHub came into my life. I never worry about accidentally deleting or deleting critical code. If som...
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Rohan H.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub's seamless integration of version control, issue tracking, and collaborative code review makes it an indispensable hub for developers to work together efficiently and produce high-quality software projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Some of the advanced concepts pose a great barrier for beginners such as branching and complex workflows. Github is online so sometimes I haved faces issues when there is very poor internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Github has an excellent version control system which has made collaboration among our developers very easier. GitHub's pull request system allows for thorough code reviews, catching errors, and ensuring code quality before it's merged into the main codebase. This solves the problem of introducing bugs or suboptimal code into the project. GitHub's repositories can also serve as documentation hubs, helping you keep track of project-related information, guides, and best practices. This solves the problem of scattered documentation and aids in knowledge sharing among team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I have explored popular remote Git options like Bitbucket, and Gitlab but nothing as intuitive, collaborative, and user-friendly as GitHub. The best thing I like about GitHub is that it can be a simple platform when you like - but can also be a complex one when you want. For example, for smaller projects, I simply use GitHub issues to keep track of backlogs and sprints, but for bigger projects, I can use the Projects module and GitHub actions. I also love the security alerts, saved me a few times from possible credentials leaks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There isn't anything particular I dislike about GitHub, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Version controlling is the primary problem and we were using Bitbucket before which is part of Atlassian tools (since we use Jira). Bitbucket worked fine for version controlling but the user-friendly that GitHub provides was unmatched. Interns that we hire know how to work around GitHub more than compared to Bitbucket so its majority saving a lot of time too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub provides reliable storage for our projects. Combined with SSH authentication, we can manage employee access to certain repositories using our in-house SSH key management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Certain repositories may contain sensitive information that is not suitable for a third-party cloud enviornment. Such data has to be encrypted before being uploaded, a function that could be natively implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business develops proprietary solutions for real estate. These solutions must be kept private while being easily accessible to employees. GitHub offers SSH authentication via Git, allowing us to manage access for every individual employee using our own solution rather than having to implement a new one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul W.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

Best part of github its simple ui by which we can easily share our code with team and work on shared project efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Nothing as of now , experience with github was smooth till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working on shared project is not easy without github. Github provide Pr feature by which code review made easy. Github also provide build automation tool which makes project delivery easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zaiynab M.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

managing codes so efficiently, i can literally review the code, open the code using phone/ web, and it doesn't require any IDE to make changes as well, as a senior developer I have to verify the code which has been written by my team. and I can change it from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

when doing open-sourcing, I have to purchase the GitHub Copilot and don't want to buy it. at least give some of the features free with a limit so that we can check if worth than I can purchase because I think of try and buy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

after the source coding is done, GitHub solves my problem of verifying the code rather than in IDE o browser, which is helping me to make changes when needed, rewert back the changes, and many more options, the bonus is history which I can reset the branch, show the committing of each code.

I love the commute and commute history feature so that I can track the history of work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kapil K.
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Graduate Data Engineer
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What do you like best about GitHub?

I use Github for keeping the track of my codes and all of my projects. I like using GIT HUB as it provides different versions of my code which I have written and I can anytime revert back to them. Also I can access that from anywhere and start working on that by creating my own branch with interfering with the master branch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Well to start with, it seemed really difficult to learn about github in starting. It is a bit harder for a begineer. So to make it easier to understand can be the first step towards improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business is using Github for a hosting the codes for data transformation project and all our team members can create their own branch and start working on their own and create the functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Glenn B.
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Applications System Analyst
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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub was easy to use for me to upload new transaction files and compare changes to a main file. Then the system would give me a file of the differences. This allowed me to just make the changes without having to figure out what the changes were. After I updated the database, I merged the file into the Main to be ready for the next file with new transactions. I was able to keep a copy of the field, so I could recover at any point if needed. I am part of a Software Development team and all the Developers use GitHub here to manage/track/document any system code changes for several systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Sometimes I accidentally made a multiple in my Update file area and I had trouble getting it back to one update file. I was a novice with GitHub and my boss gave me the highlights to perform one type of task weekly on one file that grew. So, it was hard to learn how to recover from a mistake without my boss's assistance. Eventually, I will add junior developer skills to assist our developers as I learn Apex and Oracle on my own. I am an Applications System Analyst and GitHub is a minor part of my workload at this point. I think the documentation help is geared more toward experienced users, and not novices who never used it and then got a little mentoring and used it minimally. I am not sure if you have a section on Getting Started on very basic use to gain experience and help towards more advanced use. THat would be my only suggestion, as this tool is usually geared toward major Developers, not someone branching into the area with little experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a major time saver as it creates a file for me that I do not have to manually make, that allows me to complete a task in 1-2 hours instead of many hours or a few days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github has offered us a great way to branch and remain with a seemingly international standard of using GIT, without any charges or excess setup. Our entire company relies on Github for all of our code needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Github and Git itself can be very confusing to use. It definitely takes a lot of upfront learning investment, but once you have it you're set! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

Github helps us solve the issue of code creation and protection - we often have a need to protect the code we write so that we don't accidently push broken code and the like. Github provides us a great way to do so, and is so widely used that it is understood by any new onboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew M.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github checks all the boxes for a basic version controlling platform, but it has so much more available. It has tons of great integrations to run tests against code, as well as plenty of ways to create internal documentation similar to a wiki article. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Occasional slowness can bring productivity to a standstil. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is a one stop shop for hosting code, and keeping versions controlled. It's useful for doing peer review prior to releasing new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parth P.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

- Easy to Use

- Code space

- Github Actions

- Great integration with other services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

- Github Action in free version are sometime bit laggy or stops working

- frequency downtimes on services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitHub solving and how is that benefiting you?

- We are using github for our day to day development code review / release / deployment. Its so convinet to use and can be totally dependent on that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.