GitHub
Git hosting service offering version control, collaboration, and project management tools. Provides issue tracking, code review through pull requests, wikis, and deployment workflows.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
Git integration- File Versioning
- Unlimited private repos
- Gist support
- Git Support
- Issue Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Compare Source Code
- Two-factor Authentication
- CI/CD
- Ad-free
- Bug reporting
- Support for MarkDown
IFTTT Integration- Team Collaboration
- REST API
- Token-based auth
- Colorblind support
- Distributed
- Syntax Highlighting
- FIDO U2F (2FA) support
- Passkey Support
- Git and mercurial support
GitHub News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Cursor
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- Maoholguin published news article about GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot app launches on desktop with Canvases, cloud automation and MCP supportGitHub has officially released the GitHub Copilot desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, bringi...
- Fla published news article about GitHub
GitHub Models retired for new customers, existing users unaffectedGitHub Models is no longer accessible to new customers, marking the start of its retirement. Existi...
Recent activities
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What is GitHub?
GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. It is written in Ruby on Rails by Logical Awesome developers Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.
The site provides social networking functionality like feeds, followers and the network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository.
GitHub also operates a pastebin-style site at gist.github.com, wikis for the individual repositories and web pages that can be edited through a git repository.
GitHub has a built-in, highly functional Issue Tracker.
GitHub information
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Github Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $4 and $21 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
Amazing website, I always come here If I have trouble figuring out how to code something, can always find an example that some one else has done
Github used to be good. Now it's bad, because owned by M$. Open Source like Gitlab is better for our privacy and more respectful of our data.
Maybe its ok now, but one day, with another MS CEO this would be weak point of open-source world. I think its time to switch now, gitlab, gitbucket, gitea, ... whatever. Just for more promising future of open software.
M$?
@Justman10000 M$ = Microsoft (This reply is a year old, I know)
A very capable and powerful product, but over the last few months I have measured an increasing rate of errors from GitHub actions. I am experiencing an api failure causing a build to fail every day, small numbers but irritating and they are increasing.
GitHub is where nearly every open source project lives, which makes it essential regardless of whether you use it for your own work. The pull request workflow, Issues, and Actions (CI/CD) are well-designed and have gotten meaningfully better over the past few years.
GitHub Actions replaced several third-party tools for me — automated deployments, test runs, and build pipelines all in one place with no separate service to configure.
The free tier covers unlimited public and private repos with Actions minutes included. For solo developers and small teams, you rarely need to pay.
The web editor (github.dev) and Codespaces are solid additions for quick edits and cloud-based development without local setup.
Banned account out of nowhere for a ToS breach I didn’t commit. Fully suspended without notice or explanation. Contacting support requires a SMS, so entering a phone number, ofc voip numbers are banned. Once done, I appealed and got what seems like an automated response saying
"GitHub is meant to be used as a collaborating and hosting tool for software developers. We're unable to see activity on your account that indicates that it's being used for the intended purpose. For this reason we will not be removing the restrictions from this account at this time."
Heh, basically no human looked at this because I clearly had code projects with other devs…
My supposition: they’re hostile to VPNs and mail forwarding services like addy. Or maybe my fingerprinting resistance prevented them from selling my data so they banned me?
They train their LLMs on your public code. The only advantage of it is that it is very popular and has some valuable social elements for creating a portfolio. And remember: it is owned by Microsoft 🤮.
I can connect all my projects in work and home and i can code everywhere the services and tools i found in GitHub is a great help for everyone who works on IT