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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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"Great tool for data storage and collaborative tool"
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What do you like best about GitHub?

I love the cloud oriented focus which makes it super easy to get in and handle any change controls that need to be approved or reviewed. There is also an on prem enterprise version that keeps all benefits and allows better security control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Theres really not much to dislike. Github is secure, its stable, and very user friendly with initial setup. Documentation I guess could be easier to napvigate if I had to nit pick. Also on prem updating seems to come around too much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Github is being used for code and configuration management and control. The on prem enterprise option helps secure our code even further than the cloud does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

As I previously said GitHub is the best tool I have come across in 5 years of my experience as a programmer:

1. My favorite and the most commonly used is the feature to store all the code on the GitHub cloud from your local machine in such an organized manner that no one could ever imagine.

But Github has evolved and made it possible to automatically document the code pushed or deleted in such a way that using it is a cakewalk. With some simple commands, we can push the code to could, set up automatic deployment, work in teams, and much more.

2. There are many features but one lifesaver is the code revert ability of GitHub which allows us to revert the whole project code to a previous state if anyone has broken your working project while working on it. Github has all the history of the code committed by all your team members, so there's no escape after ruining the code.

3. If you have a newbie working on your project and don't want him/her to disturb your codebase. For the above scenario, Github is equipped with the ability to split your project or rather say clone your project into a different branches and make changes there, and later with the approval of the project owner one can again merge the new code back to the original code, thus adding new features without breaking anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I will really have to think to find out my dislikes in Github. Still, things I would like to point are:

1. It is not very easy to understand how Github works. Like when at first I started using Github I was so confused about the terms GitHub use like, branch, repository, How to merge a code, How to raise a pull request, etc. I mean to say it is very confusing for a beginner and once you get hang of it, you literally live without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use Github daily for my personal and professional work. So I am literally solving all my problems using Github. When working in a team it is very very difficult to keep the code from all the programmer in sync. This extra hustle is solved by GitHub and we can simply focus more on building an application rather than maintaining the codebase. Junior programmers can simple make a branch and play around with the code without affecting the original application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

The standard tool for the industry. Reliable, easy to use, and with a lot of options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Private repositories are behind a paywall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

A must learn for the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Any project that involves code, versioning, and backups, benefits directly from using git repositories. You cannot go wrong using GitHub for that purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

I like its ease of use, the dead simple documentation for almost everything about coding, their Education program as well as the global design and style. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I would love to see more events in Italy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

Learn the basic stuff first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm using GitHub to mantain code for various ecommerce and website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

Recently I like their project options that i can customize projects to track on Github Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Merge conflict resolution should be smarter like TFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Now I am using everyday GitHub to manage my project. Every doc i try to upload here to control the version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cody L.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

The Github website is straightforward to use, and it makes visualizing the programming languages within a repo very easy.

Additionally, the contribution history for users is a very nice feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

The automatic bot notifications for repositories can get annoying if you are talking about example / PoC repositories. I would turn them off most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use GitHub as my personal Git Repo management system, as well as for tracking open-source packages that I use and would like to contribue to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It is an easy-to-use platform where you can find multiple solutions that can help you accelerate your project. You can collaborate with anyone across the globe. It allows me to take help from anyone and also contribute to someone else's project. It helps you store your code and then access it from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

There is nothing to dislike. It is an open-source, collaborative platform that helps you speed up your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GitHub platform has helped me tremendously with my projects. I have stored my code on the platform, and I can search for existing solutions to my problems to reduce redundancy. It is helpful in situations where we are stuck and have difficulties figuring out the logic - GitHub gives us a community to reach out to solve such blocks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doolitha S.
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What do you like best about GitHub?

Mainly it's free. And now, we can also create private repositories free of charge. Very easy to monitor the code changes, and if something went wrong, it saves the day. It's one of the most helpful products ever developed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

I couldn't find a reason to dislike it. I am In love with all the features but I think the interfaces need a little bit of improvement, other than that, it's a fine product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitHub:

To me its the best version controlling system out there for free of charge and one of the best product that ever developed for the humanity by the developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It was beneficial during the group projects and all the development projects I have done so far. Easy to share and manage the code among team members, quickly find the issues and where they came from, etc. Mainly used it with Visual Studio Code to directly address the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

It is easy to understand, almost everybody in the field knows how to use it, and it's free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

Nothing, the platform is perfect as it is right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having a versioning control system that allows our team to develop everywhere and without bugs. We are doing it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GitHub?

tie between version control and file sharing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitHub?

when collaborating on projects I still tend to have merge issues that take a long time to resolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

file sharing and version control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.