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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"
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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub's versioning is unparalleled at the moment.

GitHub's handling of branching and merging is probably the best thing about the service

All the repositories will be stored in the cloud

Integration with Jira is an added advantage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

GitHub doesn't have any major drawbacks but there are some things which I don't like.

- While GitHub has clear documentation on how to get started, it is not enough for complete beginners.

-The Web version of GitHub can be improved as handling conflict and merge requests is cumbersome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Start with the official documentation. Begin using Git and GitHub using the command line on your laptop and later on move on to a tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Deployment of web apps is hassle-free with GitHub. For example, I can directly deploy a React js project via Netlify with just one click. The changes which I make on GitHub will be automatically deployed on Netlify. It is probably the best platform to manage your source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github helps to make all the collection of different scripts at a single place and can be shown to other with the person sitting far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

No as such dislike but would surely like to improve some good supports from it like making some good bots which help us to automate the work easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Genuinely for all the coder's it's like another kind of resume, so everyone should use in their daily use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am making a team project currently so it helps to work together and benefits are like it is user friendly and others are it also provide student developer pack which has around 100 of apps with subscription like canva Pro, notion Pro, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It provides a lot of great features for a development team: we get a lot of use of actions, projects, and teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Some features are lacking or have been implemented much later compared to competitors such as GitLab Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides a solid version control manager that helps our development team continuously push out code and keep us organized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

There are so many things I like about GitHub. GitHub has become the standard repository for open-source software, so I find myself perusing source code on the site often. I keep a large number of my public and private repositories on GitHub, and for the most part, I have stopped using BitBucket and Azure DevOps for personal projects. I love that all my development tools integrate with GitHub by default. I use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GoLand, PyCharm, IntelliJ, and WebStorm with GitHub and have never had a problem. GitHub allows you to create personal websites and blogs, all free of charge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Even though GitHub is the dominant free software hosting platform for a decentralized version control protocol, GitHub itself is centralized, proprietary, for-profit, closed-source, and politically active. Depending on your project type, this may be a huge liability. While I find GitHub great for personal use, I do not think it would be a good fit for my current employer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use GitHub to share source code and open-source projects, and I also keep a personal blog hosted using their site. This is all done without cost. It would require significant investment to host these things myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos C.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

What I like most about Github is how it allows me to be a better developer in general by being more conscious of my progress in our team's tasks and having easier collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I can't think of a downside in using Github. Maybe one thing I can squeeze in is how it can do better in its search engine. There are times when terms are not captured in searching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github solves how we can visualize a couple of things and make things easier compared to just doing everything in the command line. It also allows easier tap into teammates for review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dushyant P.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github is the standard bearer for source code management tools, and has practically become synonymous with Git. With its rich community that host millions of open source projects and events, Github has continuously striven to make itself better, evidenced by the introduction of in browser IDE Codespaces, continuous improvement of Github Actions,and the newest, most exciting, Github Copilot, which has unreal accuracy in autocompleting code using AI, Github has proven that its stand at the top of source code management platforms is well deserved. For teams seeking more features and security, Github enterprise is also a pocket friendly yet complete solution to leverage on this thirst of betterment that Github has Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Github has confined itself largely to development, source code management and version control, whereas competitor tools like Bitbucket, Gitlab have diversified into a portfolio of products. Bitbucket, owned by Confluence, has JIRA project management which integrates seamlessly with Bitbucket to provide a sophisticated enterprise software development solution. Similarly, Gitlab has pipelines that greatly simplify the software delivery process, and are once again preferred by enterprise development teams. Github should, I believe, also focus on this area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use Github to maintain my personal and professional code repositories, which are collaborated upon by my team and the open source community. My blog and website are open sourced and maintained on Github and have found great benefit from the strong community and the constant package updates. Microsoft's acquisition of Github has empowered it to innovate on products greatly. I believe Github has immense scope to end up being the defacto software project management solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

1.Cloning and downloading code is very easy.

2. Allows user to easily create branches and code review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

1.Code upload can be faster.

2.User interdependency gets confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Helps in creating centralized hub for repo.

2. Easily integrate with Jenkins.

3.Solves integration with Scans like Nexus and Sonarqube Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I store my projects on Github. The reason I do this is because I have a chance to lose my projects on my computer. But when I upload each of my projects to Github, I can access my projects whenever I want. When I make changes on my project, I can commit. This function gives the opportunity to work with more than one person on the project. I use Github almost every day. Good thing Github! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I think the interface could be improved a little more. Beginners find it difficult at first because its interface seems a bit complicated. But as you use it, you get used to it. It would be perfect if the interface was a little more user friendly. Other than that, I sometimes get minor errors when using the commit and repository functions, but it's not very important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Github, I can access my projects whenever and wherever I want. This is a great thing. Being able to access my project in a cafe, outdoors, in another city, on another computer is awesome. I can work on a certain project with more than one friend. I can also see my friends' comments. We are developing step by step on the project with Github and we can access these developments whenever we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub lets you collaborate, make mistakes, fix mistakes, and keep a critical record of who did what when. It's great when you're developing pretty much anything. I can't believe it's free... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

GitHub is based on git, which has quite a steep learning curve. The terminology of push, pull, rebase, etc. can be less than intuitive, although it's easy to guess that having your head detached isn't a good thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Use it with Visual Studio Code, which makes life so much easier. ClickUp also integrates well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub lets us try stuff & securely show stuff to others so they can work on it. The best thing is that you know that whoever breaks what, it effectively has 'undo' on steroids. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I really like the way you can split work and features using branches and release versions. You can collaborate with remote teams and ensure that projects run smoothly for all members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There is a learning curve for using it properly. If not, it could be a mess. You would need to do a course to learn how to use it because documentation could be a little abstract for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It controls system versioning, helps with remote collaboration, and allows the addition of some tools and tests for easily continued integration. It also provides easy ways to integrate with other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.