GitHub

GitHub, Inc.

Type of business	Subsidiary
Type of site	Collaborative version control
Available in	English
Founded	February 8, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-02-08) (as Logical Awesome LLC)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Tom Preston-Werner Chris Wanstrath P. J. Hyett Scott Chacon
CEO	Nat Friedman
Key people	Erica Brescia (COO) Carrie Olesen (CHRO) Mike Taylor (CFO)
Industry	Software
Parent	Microsoft
Registration	Optional (required for creating and joining projects)
Users	100 million (Jan 2023)[1]
Launched	April 10, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-10)
Current status	Active
Written in	Ruby

GitHub is an online software development assistance and version control service.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} This platform uses Git.^[7] It is operated by GitHub, Inc. based in the United States.

In January 2020, GitHub reported that they have more than 40 million users^[8] and more than 100 million repositories^[9] (including at least 28 million public repositories).^[10] Therefore, it is recognized as the largest host of source code in the world.^[11]

1. ↑ https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/
2. ↑ Dabbish, L., Stuart, C., Tsay, J., & Herbsleb, J. (2012, February). Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on computer supported cooperative work (pp. 1277-1286).
3. ↑ Pipinellis, A. (2018). GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub. Packt Publishing Ltd.
4. ↑ Mergel, I. (2015). Open collaboration in the public sector: The case of social coding on GitHub. Government Information Quarterly, 32(4), 464-472.
5. ↑ Beer, B. (2018). Introducing GitHub: A non-technical guide. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
6. ↑ Dawson, C., & Straub, B. (2016). Building Tools with GitHub: Customize Your Workflow. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
7. ↑ Blischak, J. D., Davenport, E. R., & Wilson, G. (2016). A quick introduction to version control with Git and GitHub. PLoS computational biology, 12(1), e1004668.
8. ↑ "User search". GitHub. Retrieved Jan 29, 2019. Showing 40,206,691 available users
9. ↑ "GitHub passes 100 million repositories". VentureBeat. 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
10. ↑ "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Showing 28,177,992 available repository results
11. ↑ Gousios, Georgios; Vasilescu, Bogdan; Serebrenik, Alexander; Zaidman, Andy. "Lean GHTorrent: GitHub Data on Demand" (PDF). The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology & †Eindhoven University of Technology: 1. Retrieved July 9, 2014. During recent years, GITHUB (2008) has become the largest code host in the world. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)