What is GitHub?
GitHub is a Git repository hosting service. GitHub also facilitates many of its features, such as access control and collaboration. It provides a Web-based graphical interface.
GitHub is an American Company.
Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, This is one of the huge acquisitions.
It hosts the source code of our projects and categorized based o programming languages used and keeps track of the various changes made by programmers.
It offers both distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git.
It also offers the collaboration feature offered by GIT.
GitHub is a place where programmers and designers work together. They collaborate, contribute, and fix bugs together. It hosts plenty of open-source projects and codes of various programming languages.
Features of GitHub
- Collaborative Coding
- Automation and CI/CD
- Security
- Enterprise Security
- Client Apps
- Project Management
- Team Administration
- Community