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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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"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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"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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Syed Mohammed I.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

1. Storing the code in our repository.

2. Ease of creating pull request.

3. Ease of creating feature branches.

4. Integration with the devops tools.

5. Making the repository private or public based on our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

As far as I worked I don't have any demerits.For now everything is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1.Changes in code by team members are not conflicting as we were creating feature branches.After approval we can merge to main or master branch.

2. Only authorised members can access and see the code present in repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

The community is so big, so powerful, and basically every product out there will integrate with it. It also supports open source, so creating a public repository is free of charge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Operating a web or software service-based business is tough with Github. Github charges on a "per private repository" basis, so if you have a lot of clients you're building applications for, and (obviously) require the source to be private, you'd be paying a fortune only to keep that source on Github. There are other better choices out there where you pay a standard fixed monthly or annual fee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github integrates nicely with DockerHub, so my docker source code can be pulled directly off from Github to DockerHub for building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub has good-enough solutions for everything our team needs to run well. The core version-control offering is great. The other offerings — project management, continuous integration, and wikis are relevant to us — are not as good, but integrate well enough with each other that we haven't found it worthwhile to move off GitHub for anything but wiki. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Notification settings are quite course-grained. It's taken me months to get mine in good order. I'm pretty sure most of our developers just leave the default settings and are overwhelmed by the flood. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub provides tools that let us solve the problem of "how can we best collaborate to write software?" It's difficult to imagine life without it, or something similar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

All the workflows and things that a software development team needs from a git cloud tool.

Creating PRs, issues, releases, tags, managing git stuff from cloud, CI workflows, and now even AI copilot (although it's not that useful at times tbh)

It just gets the work done. It's like if it didn't exist, then it would be hard to use the alternatives, although I've also used Bitbucket and Gitlab. Github just seems intuitive and clean, and works well.

Deep dive into its features is not something that can be covered here, for that it's best to signup and just explore what you need. But yeah, we're good with Github for now.

Integrations with Slack, Jira, etc, are colossal productivity time savers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Code browsing isn't that fluid and like how it is in IDEs yet. It's cumbersome and not something I use tbh.

There should be a bar at the top where I can do fuzzy search for any file or files containing that search term.

In PR reviews, there should be threading of replies, like in reddit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

CI/CD

version control

peer code review

running hooks

software analysis

release orchestration

release preparation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

we can use the command-line interface, Git, to make and monitor any changes using GitHub to find source codes in a variety of languages.

Additionally, knowing GitHub enables any team to work remotely on projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

A good API development is not available on GitHub.

Compared to other repository platforms available on the market, GitHub has less functionalities and Most users stopped using GitHub because of some of its useful services, which are charged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

templates, integrations, and repositories that provide we are work and project the exposure it requires GitHub includes a variety of applications, including those for businesses, open-source software, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I really like how GitHub provides a secure and reliable platform to host both public and private open source projects. It has been especially helpful for school assignments, allowing multiple people to easily collaborate on the same project. By providing an issue tracker and merge requests, it has greatly improved the accessibility of various open source software development processes. Pull requests enable more efficient code reviews, while its Actions feature enables continuous integration operations that also help streamline further development activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I do not like the fact that Github is difficult to learn, which makes it difficult to get up to speed initially. However, as my experience with it grows, I've come to appreciate its many benefits and convenience for programmers. Aside from the challenge of getting started on Github, there are few downsides to using this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub allows me to collaborate more efficiently with my engineering and programming teams. Using its features, I can easily share changes and additions made to a project without losing progress or erasing previous work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub makes it easy to collaborate on projects with friends, co-workers and other developers. GitHub integrates with most text developers. It supports integration with Slack as well as Jira. It is easy for other developers to contribute, suggest enhancements to code and seamlessly cooperate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

The paid version of GitHub is costly. GitHub is complex and you must know the commands to run to get things done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub makes it eay for me to work on projects collaboratively with my friends, workmates and other like minded developers. I can track changes to code over time and manage different versions efforlessly. It saves me lots of time and gives me access to the right people to collaborate with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I love it as it is one of the best platforms for free deployment and practising it for the longest. And it is very easy to use, with no complex architecture of files and folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I don't like the fact that it has no customizing option while deploying. It is the same for everyone, no one gets to create a customised GitHub page for their project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can improve my overall portfolio using GitHub as here I can simply put all my projects so easily and make them public in just one click, I can deploy here as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is a web-based version control system (git)

- One of the most GitHub features is Github Pages:

If you have a static website (i.e. your portfolio), you can use Githb pages to host it for free

- Github always adds new features like search mode, command mode

and the most recent beta feature is a new code browser you can browse and search your code like any editor (i.e. atom)

- Fine-grained personal access tokens are a perfect solution to generate access to your repositories. You can specify repository and permissions

Github also provides CI/CD and many other features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

For my use, GitHub was perfect, but you will take a long time to master it

in the beginning, it seems easy, and then you will be shocked, ooh there are a lot of features to learn how to use it.

It will always be easy if you use it for basic use only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The biggest problem I faced was I completed about 70% of a website, then the OS crashed, and I lost all of my data

with git, you will never lose your work, and if you made something wrong, you can return to the previous point Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I'm no Github power user (which perhaps makes my opinion more valuable to a certain subset of readers), but even I can see its value in helping teams of developers input, edit, and control versions of code. This is particularly true for large teams or full companies working on multiple apps at all times. Github's web interface and native MacOS app also both make the experiences of pulling, pushing, and committing changes accessible even to those of us less versed in those processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

While I can recognize the power and flexibilty of Github's CLI experience, I don't personally feel confident using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In my particular role, Github helps me make our mobile-app test scripts available to other members of my team. For our whole team, it gives everyone access to the same codebases without risking their integrity. I'm sure there are many, many additional services it provides, but those are the two that most directly affect me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.