While Git is a tool for tracking changes in code locally on a computer, GitHub takes it a step further by bringing this process to the cloud. It’s a web-based hosting service for Git repositories.

GitHub makes it particularly easy to fork from existing Git repositories; with a single click you can clone an existing repository and start working on it on your own terms.

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning. In addition, GitHub implements features ...

What is a bare Git repository? But what if you have a server where you simply want to manage a Git repository, allow users to push and pull, and have no interest in using that repository for ongoing ...

Free private GitHub repositories have some restrictions placed upon them. One is that no more than three contributors can work on a private GitHub repository. That's fine for individual development or ...

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface.

GitHub has steadily gained more and more subscribers over the last 10 years. For its fifth birthday, the company revealed it had 3.5 million users and was the home to 6 million software repositories.