GitHub

Not to be confused with Git or GitLab.

GitHub.com
GitHub Invertocat logo
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Collaborative version control
Available inEnglish
FoundedFebruary 8, 2008
(16 years ago) (2008-02-08) (as Logical Awesome LLC)[1]
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
Key people
  • Thomas Dohmke (CEO)
  • Mike Taylor (CFO)
  • Kyle Daigle (COO)
Industry
RevenueIncrease $1 billion (2022)[2]
Employees5,595[3]
ParentMicrosoft (2018–present)
URLgithub.com
RegistrationOptional (required for creating and joining repositories)
Users100 million (as of January 2023)
LaunchedApril 10, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-10)
Current statusActive
Written in
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GitHub (/ˈɡɪthʌb/) is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. It uses Git software, which provides distributed version control of access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.[6] Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.[7]

It is commonly used to host open source software development projects.[8] As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers[9] and more than 420 million repositories,[10] including at least 28 million public repositories.[11] It is the world's largest source code host as of June 2023. Over five billion developer contributions were made to more than 500 million open source projects in 2024.[12]

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  5. ^ "GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust". ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  6. ^ Williams, Alex. "Github Pours Energies Into Enterprise Raises 100 Million From Power VC". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2017. Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub
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  9. ^ Dohmke, Thomas (January 25, 2023). "100 million developers and counting". The GitHub Blog. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  10. ^ "Github Number of Repositories". GitHub. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  11. ^ "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Showing 28,177,992 available repository results
  12. ^ Computer, Express (October 30, 2024). "GitHub embraces developer choice with multi-model copilot, new app tool GitHub Spark, and AI-native developer experience". Express Computer. Retrieved October 31, 2024.