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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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"GitHub: A cloud-based coding platform"
Everything, from its education discount benefits to its user experience.
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"Develop and operate get it done at GitHub"
GitHub simplifies collaboration and version control with pull requests, branching, and issue tracking. It’s easy to use, widely used by developers,...
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What do you like best about GitHub?

Code commit with intuitive UI and easy comparison through UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Git client is having lot of area to get improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub is a core tool for code safety with continuous implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

What I really like the most about GitHub is the version control feature, this is a great tool to manage different versions of your code, this is extremely useful to manage changes and to avoid unwanted behaviors.

GitHub also allows you to create branches or development paths for your applications, this is very important when you are part of a development team, and you need to manage the team collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I consider GitHub a great tool, I can't think about version control without thinking in GitHub.

I'm pretty clear that GitHub is constantly changing and improving but for me works very well as it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

My advice for every single developer is to use a version control tool to keep its code secure, the best of them is GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub has enabled my development team to collaborate and work on the same project together without the fear of causing accidental damage to a project code, this is thanks to the version control feature. This has allowed us to set up internal processes and practices in regards to repository management, for example, we have segregated trainees and junior developers to push to some specific branches, but those branches are supervised by the mid-senior developers and coaches, in our team, only senior developers and project leads can merge and push to the master branch, we let that apart from every other version until someone with the desired expertise can handle and integrate all the changes.

This may sound a bit overwhelming but we have seen great results by reinforcing the confidence of trainees and junior developers and had also allowed us to protect our source code from unwanted changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github is one of the best platforms to store our code without any hassle. This has allowed us to access our codes from anywhere in the world. It is totally open-source, we can easily pull the request and can contribute to other projects as well. Github has also introduced Github Autopilot which is a game-changer. By using Github Autopilot we can write our codes more easily. It is the best version controlling platform available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

In Github parallel contribution is very bad. Project management can also be made more robust and efficient by improving the epics. Navigation around the Github platform becomes a little complex until you get used to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Github is a very awesome platform for storing your code and for collaborative work. You can access open source projects too. It is a very good platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github is a very good platform to store the code and maintain the version controlling. We were facing code accessibility by everyone in a team, but it becomes easier to access the code and commit our changes after using Github. It also maintains the history of changes too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

The service has high availability, stability and continuous improvement and the addition of new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

It's not easy to use it with other non-technical team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Controlling the version of the code in an accessible and shareable way and linking code to issues and contributors with the ability to reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is a lifesaver for me. It's easy to use via GUI and CLI. We can manage our project there with almost ease. It provides all the features like to create public and private repository, can push our code from the local environment with simple steps. We can compare files there. It's good software overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

To be honest I didn't find anything yet to be complain about but it would be if it provides better connect with third parties api like codacy . Except this it's a great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using it for my official use. Helping me to manage my project. I can save my whole project there so kind of helping me to save space as well in my local environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github provides both a helpful GUI and access through the command line to push and pull requests from the repo. The ability to revert back to working versions should not be understated and have constantly used the historical look view to choose the version to go back to. Github has helped me in several software engineering projects as an additional way to manage code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Advanced repository management requests may take some time to get familiar with but there are several lessons and resources to get familiar. Once you need to start merging back into the main code you should know what you're doing so you don't overwrite others code. Other than that, there is a lot of verbiage to understand what happens if you continue to follow the sequence of commands you are about to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Github will help you store and manage all your work on projects of different sizes. The collaboration and security features enhance the capabilities of the tool and the product supports many different languages and markdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github helps teams collaborate on projects and has helped us popularize different sections of the code and split up tasks. The benefits that come from this are obvious in that you can focus on your development work and testing and leave the other portions alone for operability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github is a great piece of technology that helps in hosting remote repositories. It allows us to make repositories public and private which helps us to contribute to the open-source community as well as work on our personal projects parallelly. It is also an effective management tool that allows to open issues, do code reviews and handle all patches. Currently, it has no storage limit per account which is very convenient, also with the introduction of Git LFS you can upload files that are above 50Mb. I also like the fact that GitHub allows the hosting of static web pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Sometimes when committing huge files errors occur and the connection with the remote repository "hangs up". Alo I wish if the file limit for the web interface increases because sometimes a quick commit to being done by the command line is not convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All my ML and AI projects are hosted on Github. It makes sure that in case all files are deleted on your end, the files still can be recovered. Github overs a flexible workflow when building and scaling a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Github action

Git, gitbash, hosting and all feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Nothing in dislike, it's one and only best tool to share collaborate code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Project hosting, pipeline codes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

GitHub is a full-featured, reliable Git hosting service for open source projects as well as for enterprises. I first started using GitHub for school projects which made it easy to collaborate with others. Many open-source projects use GitHub as their source code repository making the code and issues easily accessible. Pull requests and the issue tracker was the first two key features of this cloud hosting service. Pull requests simplify the process of reviewing and approving code. Many integrations work with GitHub to run tests, notify users, and build code. Now they have their own continuous integration feature known as actions that quickly improve the software development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There is very little to dislike about GitHub since it is a comprehensive version control platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

The users for an organization can be grouped into teams which may make sense to restrict access to projects. Consider planning out the organization and team structure well. The licensing model changed to a per-seat license which is great for large organizations because there are unlimited repositories. This licensing model may not be as cost-effective for smaller organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our organization uses GitHub to standardize the version control system. It is great for enterprises, and it is easy to manage teams and licenses. Due to the numerous integrations, our development teams can choose their tools for their projects and integrate them with GitHub as needed. We have begun deploying their code scanning feature for our repositories to ensure that our codebases conform to security best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Let's start with the overall UI. Excellent and easy to navigate through. Everything is easily accessible. We see a beautiful graph showing our contribution day by day. We can see repositories and projects and pull requests etc. Creating a repository is very easy. Github automatically shows what programming languages are used in the project. Commit history along with comments are also available. Very easy to upload new files to the repository, just drag and drop or browse. Within minutes files are processed. Github pages is another thing that is pretty awesome. We can make our website live free of cost on Github pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There are a lot of features in Github which are sometimes confusing for a lot of people, especially beginners e.g., stages and unstaged commits, pull requests and merging etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Working with the team in creating large projects

2. Code Hosting

3. Version Control

4. Making websites live using Github pages.

5. Code sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.