GitHub
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Repository of the website's official documentation, storing its source code | |
| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | Collaborative version control |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | February 8, 2008 (as Logical Awesome LLC)[1] |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue | $1 billion (2022)[2] |
| Employees | 5,595[3] |
| Parent | Microsoft (2018–present) |
| URL | github |
| IPv6 support | No[4][5] |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining repositories) |
| Users | 150 million (as of May 2025) [6] |
| Launched | April 10, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
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| ASN | 36459 |
GitHub (/ˈɡɪthʌb/ ⓘ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.[9] GitHub has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018 and its headquarters are located in San Francisco.[10]
It is commonly used to host open source software development projects.[11] As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories.[12] 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.[13]
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- ^ "GitHub Diversity". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ "IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories · community · Discussion #10539". GitHub. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ^ "dig +noquestion +noauthority @2001:4860:4860::8888 AAAA github.com". isgithubipv6.live. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ^ Muralidharan, Prakash (May 27, 2025). "GitHub just crossed 150 million users. But that stat isn't about scale. It's about signal". LinkedIn. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
- ^ "GitHub". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ "GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust". ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ 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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- ^ 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.