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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...
Jack Z.
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Jack Z.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"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.
Lautaro S.
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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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What do you like best about GitHub?

Easy to use

Integrated with Visual Studio

Integrated with Everything I need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

That it's pro features are more expensive than what I would like.

UX/UI can be a little overwhelming at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

DevOps Orchestration

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I really like that GitHub makes it easy for people to work together on coding projects and helps us manage our work efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

One thing I find challenging about GitHub is that it can sometimes feel overwhelming with all the features and options, especially for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub helps people work together on coding projects. For me it makes it easier to share code, track changes, and collaborate with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is an all-in-one platform. It not only acts as a Git server, allowing you to host your code, but also supports hosting container images along with automated builds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Being Microsoft-owned, certain projects are not suitable. Additionally for projects under NDA using a platform controlled by a third party may be problematic, especially in the case of a data breach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automating deployments and builds can often be tedious requring dependecies to be downloaded on each developer's computer. GitHub's Actions feature allows us to produce executables of our projects seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

- GitHub integrates with the majority of the IDEs

- GitHub provides many out-of-the-box features like Code Scanning, Applying rules to PR, Commits etc.

- GitHub is the highly secure VCS tool available in the market

- Code review process is very easy and user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

- There is a learning curve involved for the beginners

- There are very limited things that you can do offline

- It offers very limited features in the free version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- It makes our code merging and branching process very easy and hassle free

- Also it eases the code review process

- Automated suggestions on code improvements and security issue detection is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github action is an automation specific tool, which will help us to store the source code in repo, compile it and deploy to the container orchastration tools like kubernetes or any cloud app services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Github action almost supports every aspects like other cloud native tools or even third part tools like JIRA, etc, but they need to improve the granualar security settings (user level) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It heps to automation build and deployment, along with its other flavours like Git (Version control tool) it works really well. The certification is free of cost and it comes with the free version for all kind of testings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I love how it can be accessed from anywhere and allows our team to work together, bring our code and issues forward and work together to get our project streamlined and working efficiently. It is great with collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I do not have many complaints. However it does require a bit of a learning curve for anyone new to the platform. So it will take some time for newbies to get used to the way it works and flows and the process at which things flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is helping with keeping my team streamlined, collaborating, and communicating. It was very difficult before we started using Github for our team to stay up to date with code changes and with interacting with one another on important project infrastructure updates, changes, and needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Easy collaboration between team members and highly secure infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Sometimes ssh drops frequently within organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing code at scale and also now codespaces help to manage dependencies faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It has a larger developer community compared to any other repository maintenance software application, the issues will be addressed by the community as early as possible with detailed responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There is nothing much to say here, it is the best repository maintenance application I have ever seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am a fan of their User-friendly Interface, it has lots of detail in a single and simple page view.. there are lots of useful widget in the application to get the details on what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Free codes are available

Easily accessible

Easy implementation

One stop for all programmers

Code repositories can be added to resume for employer

Compatible with aal plateforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Sometimes code submission is little bit tricky if we want to upload bigger codes.

Tutorials can make life easier if available but till now we havent good ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As, I am a researcher so we have to publish research papers and codes online. So, in that case it is very beneficial to have a repository to submit codes for review puppses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github provides build-in tool for code review, that includes issue tracking system in Github, as well as user can fork the repository to update the or change the version of the Model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Github Provides the free plans but it can be costly for the private repository. to use the Github you need an Internet Connection without Internet Connection you cannot use Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub Offers free hosting for the Open source Projects, also it has code review along with it allows team to discuss and review the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.