GitHub
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| URL | GitHub.com |
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| Slogan | Social Coding |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | collaborative revision control |
| Registration | Required |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | GitHub, Inc. |
| Launched | April 2008[1] |
| Alexa rank |  460 (February 2012[update])[2] |
| Current status | online |
GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects. According to the Git User's Survey in 2009, GitHub is the most popular Git hosting site.[3]
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[edit] Description
The site provides social networking functionality such as feeds, followers and the network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository.
GitHub also operates a pastebin-style site called Gist,[4] wikis for individual repositories, and web pages that can be edited through a Git repository.
As of January 2010[update], GitHub is operated under the name GitHub, Inc.[5]
The software that runs GitHub was written using Ruby on Rails and Erlang by GitHub, Inc. (previously known as Logical Awesome) developers Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner.
[edit] Statistics
GitHub was launched in April 2008.[1]
In a talk at Yahoo! headquarters on 24 February 2009, GitHub team members announced that during the first year that GitHub was online, it accumulated 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of them in the last month alone. At that time, about 6,200 repositories had been forked at least once and 4,600 merged. On July 5, 2009, a Github Blog post announced they reached the 100,000 users mark.[6]
In another talk delivered at Yahoo! on 27 July 2009, Tom Preston-Werner announced that the numbers had risen to 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories.[7] In July 2010 GitHub announced that it hosts 1 million repositories.[8] In April 2011, Github announced that it is hosting 2 million repositories. [9]
On September 21, 2011 GitHub announced it had reached over 1 million users.[10]
[edit] Bandwidth usage limitation
According to the terms of service[11] if your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage of other GitHub customers, they reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
[edit] See also
- Bitbucket
- Assembla
- Comparison of open source software hosting facilities
- Gitorious
- JavaForge
- SourceForge
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Wanstrath, Chris (10 April 2008). "We Launched". GitHub. https://github.com/blog/40-we-launched.
- ^ "Github.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/GitHub.com. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ Git User's Survey 2009
- ^ Github:gist
- ^ Hyett, PJ (21 January 2010). "New Year, New Company". GitHub blog. http://github.com/blog/589-new-year-new-company.
- ^ "100,000 Users!, Git Official Blog". 5 July 2009. https://github.com/blog/455-100-000-users.
- ^ Dascalescu, Dan (3 November 2009). "The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN". Dan Dascalescu's Wiki. http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/pita-threshold.
- ^ "One Million Repositories, Git Official Blog". 25 July 2010. https://github.com/blog/685-one-million-repositories.
- ^ "Those are some big numbers, Git Official Blog". 20 April 2011. https://github.com/blog/841-those-are-some-big-numbers.
- ^ https://github.com/blog/936-one-million
- ^ "Help.GutHub - Terms of Service". 20 February 2012. http://help.github.com/terms-of-service.
[edit] References
- "GitHub Company Profile". CrunchBase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/github.
- Paul, Ryan (17 July 2008). "Canonical's Launchpad gets a visual refresh". Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/07/17/canonicals-launchpad-gets-a-visual-refresh.
- Olson, Rob (22 July 2008). "GitHub unites Version Control with the Pastie". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072200368.html.
- Cooper, Peter (10 April 2008). "GitHub Officially Launches: Git Hosting A-Go-Go!". Ruby Inside. http://www.rubyinside.com/github-officially-launches-git-hosting-a-go-go-853.html.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Collaborative GitHub Workflow: introduction to distributed collaboration on GitHub
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