GitHub

GitHub (github.com or github.io) is a developer platform and a website that allows developers and programmers to create, store, manage and share their code. GitHub platform is headquartered in California, United States. It has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018."Microsoft confirms it will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion" - VentureBeat (June 4, 2018) It has features for users with access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.https://web.archive.org/web/20201025091838/https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-has-acquired-github-for-7-5b-in-microsoft-stock/
It is commonly used to host open source software development projects.https://web.archive.org/web/20150629152927/http://www.wired.com/2015/06/problem-putting-worlds-code-github/ As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories."100 million developers and counting" - The GitHub Blog (25/01/2023)https://github.com/about It is the world's largest source code host as of June 2023.
The development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2007. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett and Scott Chacon after it had been available for a few months as a beta release.https://web.archive.org/web/20210322042257/https://www.sitepoint.com/github-gist-is-pastie-on-steroids/ Its name was chosen as a compound of Git and hub.
==Features==
GitHub supports the following formats and features:
*Documentation, including automatically rendered README files in a variety of Markdown-like file formats (see README § On GitHub)
*Wikis, with some repositories consisting solely of wiki content. These include curated lists of recommended software which have become known as awesome lists.
*GitHub Actions, which allows building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines for testing, releasing and deploying software without the use of third-party websites/platforms
*GitHub Codespaces, an online IDE providing users with a virtual machine intended to be a work environment to build and test code
*Graphs: pulse, contributors, commits, code frequency, punch card, network, members
*Integrations Directory
*Email notifications
*Discussions
*Option to subscribe someone to notifications by @ mentioning them.
*Emojis
*Nested task-lists within files
*Visualization of geospatial data
*3D render files can be previewed using an integrated STL file viewer that displays the files on a "3D canvas." The viewer is powered by WebGL and Three.js.
*Support for previewing many common image formats, including Photoshop's PSD files
*PDF document viewer
*Security Alerts of known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures in different packages
==Gallery==
GithubMainPage.png|The background of the website
Githublogo.png|GitHub's alternative logo, only with texts
==External Links==
*GitHub in Wikipedia.
==References==