GitHub is a software source code hosting service with version control through Git, which was written by GitHub (formerly known as Logical Awesome) developers Chris Wanstrath, Chris Hyett and Tom Preston-Werner using Ruby on Rails.

GitHub offers paid and free accounts. Both accounts can create public or private code repositories, but paying users support more functions.

GitHub is the most popular Git access website. In addition to allowing individuals and organizations to create and access managed code, it also provides some functions that are convenient for socialization and software development, that is, the community functions of ordinary people, including allowing users to track the dynamics of other users, organizations and software libraries and comment on changes and bugs in software code.

GitHub also provides a chart function that shows how developers work on the code base and how active the software is.

Due to the serious gender imbalance in the open source community of GitHub, the male population is over 95%, so GitHub is often dubbed by netizens as "GayHub", that is, "the world's largest gay dating site".

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GitHub platform was developed in June 2007 10. The website launched a beta version in February 2008 and was officially launched in April.

Projects in GitHub can be accessed and manipulated through standard Git commands. At the same time, all Git commands can be used in GitHub projects. GitHub developed a desktop client for Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. In addition, you can also use third-party plug-ins to implement Git functions.

The website provides a series of functions unique to social networks, such as star, attention and comment. Users can participate in the development by forking other people's projects, and can see how many developers have participated in the development through the collaboration diagram and track the latest copied version. In addition, the website also has Wiki (realized by a software called Gollum) and other functions.

GitHub allows registered users and unregistered users to browse projects on the web, and can also be packaged and downloaded in ZIP format. However, users must register an account before they can discuss, create and edit projects, and participate in other people's project and code review.

GitHub supports the creation of an unlimited number of public warehouses, and paying users can create private warehouses. 20 19 1.7, GitHub announced that free users can also create private warehouses, and the number of private warehouses is unlimited, but each warehouse can specify up to three collaborators.

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