GitHub
GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service.
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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.

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.
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Microsoft want to buy it. So time to switch.
"Microsoft is acquiring GitHub and expect the agreement to close by the end of the year." It is already happening, and I agree it's time to move on to other alternatives.
Reply written over 2 years ago
Quit anti-MS trolling. Nothing changed yet and unlikely will, but you already downvoting it.
Reply written over 2 years ago
We are here to look for alternatives and that's all I'm suggesting. Things going south is a real possibility when a mega-tech company acquires a popular service such as GitHub, so it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on how this is going to develop and quietly leave the room if things don't turn out so well.
Reply written over 2 years ago
It's a site for functionality alternatives, not for politics.
Reply written over 2 years ago
I actually agree with coth here, maybe I could've omitted a part of my comment earlier. I didn't want to reply and start a pointless discussion, but there are couple of points that I'd like to clarify:
First of all, gusreisc, I'm sorry that you had that experience, but don't drag the rest of us in the same basket of name-calling for it. This is unhelpful and unnecessary. Try to keep the perspective as objective as possible when confronting other's opinions. I'm really troubled that you would go as far as to describe an entire group as "aggressive, extremist, hateful, intolerant, radical and violent zealots". In this case simply because suggesting an alternative to a particular service.
Secondly, this isn't anti-MS trolling. I've been a happy Windows user for 20 years both at work and at home. I'm using a Windows 7 machine right now and own two more running W10 and XP; I also use other services such as Skype or LinkedIn regularly, plus a number of other products and services from other popular mega companies that we've all heard of (I'll admit that some of these services I'm using only because I have to for one reason or another, which is why I'm in this site in the first place).
But, that doesn't mean that I have to agree with everything they do by default, and certainly doesn't hurt to have a healthy degree of skepticism towards the biggest companies in the world when a lot of money changes hands. I have my own experiences and my personal reasons to be wary about big moves such as this one, that's all.
Sorry for the long post, and I will read any of your replies but I will not continue this line of discussion any further.
[Edited by browsingandstuff, June 06]
Reply written over 2 years ago
At the same time you can see how VS has Professionally-featured free Community Edition since few years and very well progressing totally open source Visual Studio Code and PowerShell. So don't run ahead of train. Just wait and see how it changes, if it will.
Reply written over 2 years ago
It's been the go to repository for many years, but now Microsoft owns it, I'm scared of it's future. #MovingToGitlab
Github used to be good. Now it's bad, because owned by M$.
Open Source like Gitlab is better for our privacy and more respectful of our data.
Maybe its ok now, but one day, with another MS CEO this would be weak point of open-source world. I think its time to switch now, gitlab, gitbucket, gitea, ... whatever. Just for more promising future of open software.
Reply written over 2 years ago
HAHAHA FUNNY L⚠NU❎ REDDITOR MADE A M$ JOKE
EVERYONE LAUGH
Reply written 8 months ago
No longer reliable due to US Government laws(Donald Trump administration tariffs). Where they can take over your source code and cancel your account and access to your private repositories.
GitHub profits from mental and physical abuse of specific races of people in "detention" centres run by the US Government's ICE agency.
can you be more specific?
Reply written 4 months ago