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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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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github has very polished interfaces and loads of integrations for creating pull requests and completing code reviews. This makes it much easier for our team to work in our preferred workflows. The Pull Request system is much better than any of the competitors that we have used. It's by far the best git-based decision our team has made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Finding commits and the code behind them feels more cumbersome than necessary outside of the general PR flow. Once you get used to it, it's not a problem, but they are certainly not in the most obvious location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use GitHub to host our and our clients' code repositories, both privately and publicly. Github has saved us a ton of time by making code reviews much simpler and by allowing us to integrate different forms of automation in pull requests that save our developers time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub makes your engineering team really productive. They provide CI/CD using GitHub Actions out-of-the-box and it needlessly integrates with Visual Studio Code & other software. Furthermore, it's easy to discuss problems & Pull Requests and reference to code lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

GitHub provides quite a lot, so it's hard to find caveats.

Personally, I believe that teams shouldn't be charged for Pro users. For projects where there's no specific owner (like hobby projects), we would like to use Pro features we both paid for, as we both have a paid personal account.

It's unfortunate that GitHub enforces additional subscriptions for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

I invite you to try out GitHub. Your software engineers are probably already familiar with it and it's really worth it to look into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub allowed us to centralise our tests & deployments, discussions, documentation and even hosting. It's very cost-effective, as we don't have to invest in other resources for the software engineering team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is being best for teams working remotely or there are many people working on the same project, GitHub is used to share the project and contribute to the project at the same time, as other people working on it, it also integrates with another platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There is no such thing to dislike GitHub, it was the best among its competitors such as GitLab and amazon, and has a very less cost, there are no such things to dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub has to solve many problems by providing very efficient extensions used while working on projects, easy integration with other applications, and by providing various GitHub hooks that help in a manging projects in a very easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I have been using GitHub for more than four years for publically displaying my code, working in teams, contributing to open-source projects, and tracking issues.

It is effortless to use and easy to understand.

The platform can be used by beginners, but also the organizations with tools matching every skill and comfort level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Through the years of using GitHub, I have not developed much disliking about the software.

The themes, however, have caused difficulty to maintain the profile README requiring updates with consequent theme updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

GitHub is a tool that you must explore as a software developer and most probably the platform you'll be using the most regardless of your domain or tech stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have been using GitHub to develop a profile dashboard as well as managing my projects and collaborating with other developers.

The platform allows us to use complex functionalities like configuring unit tests on each code push or merge; or running cron jobs within repositories.

Additional features like GitHub Pages also work well in the effortless integration of static web applications to a sharable test environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

1. completely free open source tool for any kind of Development.

2. free Account public Repos and enable customers to work in a distributed environment.

3. best in class in the category of Web hosting and Version control.

4. We can get more good code from repos and modify it as per requirement.

5. Manage multiple branches and segregate our code and maintain different stages of development.

6. Easy to install and start your project with some easy and rewritable commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

1. Open source sometimes limits the boundary.

2. anyone can access your code and modify it if it is public and managing change control is quite an expensive job in Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing Development with Version control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It has everything a developer like me needs in daily life. It's version control system is best you can find now a day. Best things is that you can commit, rollback, push, pull and much more which help a developer much morel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

It has everything a developer like me needs to get his job done and develop a fully functional application using a version control system. It is so good that we can also use it locally from command prompt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github is solving problem which a webapp or any software needed to keeps updated, it pushes the new code easily to dev environment and make developers job easier. It has benefited me on my webapp updation each time I write new code. It has made an application deployment and updation easier than ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is a well known, trusted, and familiar place to share code, do code reviews, and other software development related activities. It has a lot of third party integrations, and most developers know how to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

GitHub Actions is handy, and improving frequently, but still feels less powerful and less predictable than alternative CI solutions. GitHub also has some gotchas around merging, notifications, and does not support stacked commits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub is a crucial piece of our software development lifecycle, and handle our code storage, code review, Coninuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. We rely on it for every day activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It is simply the best platform to handle code and commit my work. Github is also integrated with aws and other things like firebase which truly makes it easy to manage everything in your code at the same place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Nah, there is nothing to dislike in github. The community is too big and everyone is everyday fixing any bugs which are found by abyone. If we talk about improvements they can increase the server companies, that is the tie-ups with other more famous companies should be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I put all of my projects and various codes related to reactjs, javascript, node js and c++ here. Github has been one of the integral part of my project. To save it and correct it when needed so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It provides a solid way for me to store my projects and do version control. It also provides a simple way of project deployment by using GitHub Actions. Save me a lot of time on setting up the CI/CD. Besides, it provides a good code review tool for developers to communicate with other co-workers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I cannot think of anything on GitHub I don't like except code conflict solving. If I can solve the code conflict on GitHub easier, it'd be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It saves me a lot of time on version control and project storage. It also saves me a lot of time on setting up the CI/CD so that I can deploy my project immediately after pushing commit to my repo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is the best application or platform to push the code where an end user can review the code as well as the edit the code if the developer or author as given the access it is best because it is very helpful to other developers to take reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

GitHub must increase the security because a person can easily copy the code and use it for they benefit by just entering the persons user name and can access all the files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub is solving the problem for developer to push the code by creating the respository and it make the work easy. For developer as well the manager to take and access all the files at a single time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.