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'''GitHub''' is a web-based ] repository hosting service, which offers all of the ] and ] (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. Unlike Git, which is strictly a ] tool, GitHub provides a ] and desktop as well as mobile integration. It also provides ] and several collaboration features such as ]s, ], and ] and ] for every project.<ref name="hugeinvestment">{{cite web|url=http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/github-pours-energies-into-enterprise-raises-100-million-from-power-vc-andreesen-horowitz/ |title=GitHub Pours Energies into Enterprise – Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz |date=9 July 2012|first1=Alex |last1=Williams |publisher=Tech Crunch |quote=Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub}}</ref>

GitHub offers both plans for private ] and free accounts,<ref>{{cite web|title=Why GitHub’s pricing model stinks (for us)|url=https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/11/07/why-githubs-pricing-model-stinks-for-us/|website=LosTechies|accessdate=29 June 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629153426/https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/11/07/why-githubs-pricing-model-stinks-for-us/|archivedate=29 June 2015|dead-url=no|date=7 November 2012}}</ref> which are usually used to host ] software projects.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub|url=http://www.wired.com/2015/06/problem-putting-worlds-code-github/|website=]|accessdate=29 June 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629152927/http://www.wired.com/2015/06/problem-putting-worlds-code-github/|archivedate=29 June 2015|dead-url=no|date=29 June 2015}}</ref> As of 2015, GitHub reports having over 9 million users and over 21.1 million repositories,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/about/press |title=GitHub Press Info |website=github.com |publisher=Github|accessdate=2015-03-30}}</ref> making it the largest code hoster in the world.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Georgios Gousios|author2=Bogdan Vasilescu|author3=Alexander Serebrenik|author4=Andy Zaidman|title=Lean GHTorrent: GitHub Data on Demand|page=1|url=http://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/lean-ghtorrent.pdf|accessdate=9 July 2014|publisher=Delft University of Technology & †Eindhoven University of Technology|location=The Netherlands|quote=During recent years, GITHUB (2008) has become the largest code host in the world.}}</ref>

== Services == == Services ==


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Services

GitHub

Development of the GitHub platform began on October 1, 2007. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett after it had been made available for a few months prior as a beta period.

Projects on GitHub can be accessed and manipulated using the standard git command-line interface and all of the standard git commands work with it. GitHub also allows registered and non-registered users to browse public repositories on the site. Multiple desktop clients and git plugins have also been created by GitHub and other third parties which integrate with the platform.

The site provides social networking-like functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using wiki software called gollum) and a social network graph to display how developers work on their versions ("forks") of a repository and which fork (and branch within that fork) is newest.

A user must create an account in order to contribute content to the site, but public repositories can be browsed and downloaded by anyone. With a registered user account, users are able to discuss, manage, create repositories, submit contributions to others' repositories, and review changes to code.

The software that runs GitHub was written using Ruby on Rails and Erlang by GitHub, Inc. developers Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner.

Scope

GitHub is mostly used for code.

In addition to source code, GitHub supports the following formats and features:

  • Documentation, including automatically-rendered README files in a variety of Markdown-like file formats (see README files on GitHub)
  • Issue tracking (including feature requests)
  • Wikis
  • Small websites can be hosted from public repositories on GitHub. The URL format is http://username.github.io.
  • Nested task-lists within files
  • Visualization of geospatial data
  • Gantt charts
  • 3D render files which can be previewed using a new integrated STL file viewer which displays the files on a 3D canvas. The viewer is powered by WebGL and Three.js.
  • Photoshop's native PSD format can be previewed and compared to previous versions of the same file.

Licensing of repositories

GitHub's Terms of Service do not require public software projects hosted on GitHub to meet the Open Source Definition. Therefore (and in any case) it is advisable for users and developers intending to use a piece of software found on GitHub to read the software license in the repository (usually found in a top-level file called "LICENSE", "LICENSE.txt", or similar) to determine if it meets their needs.

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Enterprise is similar to GitHub's public service but is designed for use by large-scale enterprise software development teams where the enterprise wishes to host their repositories behind a corporate firewall.

Gist

GitHub also operates other services: a pastebin-style site called Gist which is for hosting code snippets (GitHub proper is for hosting larger projects), and a slide hosting service called Speaker Deck.

Tom Preston-Werner presented the then-new Gist feature at a punk rock Ruby conference in 2008. Gist builds on the traditional simple concept of a pastebin by adding version control for code snippets, easy forking, and SSL encryption for private pastes. Because each "gist" has its own Git repository, multiple code snippets can be contained in a single paste and they can be pushed and pulled using Git. Further, forked code can be pushed back to the original author in the form of a patch, so gists (pastes) can become more like mini-projects.

Education Program

GitHub launched a new program on October 7, 2014 called the GitHub Student Developer Pack to give students free access to popular development tools and services. GitHub partnered with Bitnami, Crowdflower, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, HackHands, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screenhero, SendGrid, Stripe, Travis CI and Unreal Engine to launch the program.

History

The shading of the map illustrates the number of users as a proportion of each country’s Internet population. The circular charts surrounding the two hemispheres depict the total number of GitHub users (left) and commits (right) per country.
  • 24 February 2009: GitHub team members announced, in a talk at Yahoo! headquarters, that within the first year of being online, GitHub had accumulated over 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of which were formed in the previous month alone. At that time, about 6,200 repositories had been forked at least once and 4,600 had been merged.
  • 5 July 2009: GitHub announced that the site was now harnessed by over 100,000 users.
  • 27 July 2009: In another talk delivered at Yahoo!, Tom Preston-Werner announced that GitHub had grown to host 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories.
  • 25 July 2010: GitHub announced that it hosts 1 million repositories.
  • 20 April 2011: GitHub announced that it is hosting 2 million repositories.
  • 2 June 2011: ReadWriteWeb reported that GitHub had surpassed SourceForge and Google Code in total number of commits for the period January to May 2011.
  • 9 July 2012: Peter Levine, general partner at GitHub's investor Andreessen Horowitz, stated that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly the entire way".
  • 16 January 2013: GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories.
  • 23 December 2013: GitHub announced it had reached 10 million repositories.
  • In June 2015, GitHub opened an office in Japan which is its first office outside of the U.S.

Censorship

Main article: Censorship of GitHub
  • 3 December 2014: GitHub is blocked in Russia due to content that refers to suicide.
  • 31 December 2014: GitHub is blocked in India (along with 31 other websites) due to git repositories from ISIS. However, on 10 January 2015, GitHub, along with some other websites, was unblocked in India.
  • 26 March 2015: GitHub fell victim to a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that lasted for more than 118 hours. The Github-hosted anti-censorship contents were the primary targets.

Company

GitHub, Inc. was originally known as Logical Awesome.

In 2014, GitHub's former CEO Tom Preston-Werner resigned from the company.

GitHub's salespeople are not paid on a commission basis.

Organizational structure

As of December 2012, GitHub, Inc. was a flat organization with no middle managers; in other words, "everyone is a manager" (self-management). Employees can choose to work on projects that interest them (open allocation). However, salaries are set by the chief executive.

In 2014, GitHub, Inc. introduced a layer of middle management.

Finance

GitHub.com is a start-up business, which in its first years provided enough revenue to be funded solely by its three founders and start taking on employees. In July 2012, four years after the company was founded, Andreessen Horowitz invested $100M in venture capital.

See also

References

  1. Weis, Kristina (2014-02-10). "GitHub CEO and Co-Founder Chris Wanstrath Keynoting Esri's DevSummit!". in 2007 they began working on GitHub as a side project
  2. Preston-Werner, Tom (19 October 2008). "GitHub Turns One!". GitHub. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  3. ^ Catone, Josh (24 July 2008). "GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids".
  4. "Interview with Chris Wanstrath". Doeswhat.com. 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  5. Weinhoffer, Eric (2013-04-09). "GitHub Now Supports STL File Viewing".
  6. "Introducing GitHub Enterprise". GitHub. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  7. Preston-Werner, Tom (2008-07-20). God's memory leak - a scientific treatment. RubyFringe. Retrieved 2014-10-21. He previewed the upcoming git feature gist {{cite conference}}: External link in |conferenceurl= (help); Unknown parameter |conferenceurl= ignored (|conference-url= suggested) (help)
  8. By Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch. "GitHub Partners With Digital Ocean, Unreal Engine, Others To Give Students Free Access To Developer Tools." 7 October 2014. 7 October 2014.
  9. Dascalescu, Dan (3 November 2009). "The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN". Dan Dascalescu's Wiki.
  10. "One Million Repositories, Git Official Blog". 25 July 2010.
  11. "Those are some big numbers, Git Official Blog". 20 April 2011.
  12. "Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity". During the period Black Duck examined, Github had 1,153,059 commits, Sourceforge had 624,989, Google Code and 287,901 and CodePlex had 49,839.
  13. Peter Levine (2012-07-09). "Software Eats Software Development".
  14. "Code-sharing site Github turns five and hits 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories". TheNextWeb.com. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  15. "10 Million Repositories". GitHub.com. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
  16. "GitHub Expands To Japan, Its First Office Outside The U.S." techcrunch. 2015-06-04.
  17. "Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide".
  18. "GitHub, Vimeo and 30 more sites blocked in India over content from ISIS". thenextweb.com. The Next Web. 2014-12-31.
  19. "Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com". github.com. GitHub. March 27, 2015. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
  20. "Last night, GitHub was hit with massive denial-of-service attack from China". theverge.com. The Verge. March 27, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  21. "U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. March 29, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  22. "Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government". arstechnica.com. Ars Technica. March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  23. Miller, Claire Cain (21 April 2014). "GitHub Founder Resigns After Investigation". Bits. The New York Times.
  24. Wilhelm, Alex (21 April 2014). "GitHub Denies Allegations Of "Gender-Based Harassment," Co-Founder Preston-Werner Resigns". TechCrunch.
  25. "Follow up to the investigation results". 28 April 2014.
  26. "Github Raises $100 Million From Andreessen Horowitz". Forbes. 9 July 2012.
  27. Ryan Tomayko (2 April 2012). "Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style". Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  28. Quentin Hardy. "Dreams of 'Open' Everything". New York Times.
  29. Evelyn, Rusli (17 July 2014). "Harassment claims make startup GitHub grow up". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  30. Michael, Carney (20 June 2013). "GitHub CEO explains why the company took so damn long to raise venture capital". PandoDaily. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  31. Cite error: The named reference hugeinvestment was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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