Recently acquired by Microsoft, GitHub is a web-based hosting service – almost a social media of sorts – for version control using Git.
While the version control services alone are good, what makes GitHub so powerful, and such a resource to the Open Source software world in particular (as well as closed source and private projects) is the collaboration it affords.
Tools like issue tracking, feature requests, task management as well as merges and Pull Requests are all handled in a pretty seamless web-based interface.
Microsoft closed its purchase of GitHub for USD $7.5billion on 26th October 2018.
GitHub was developed by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott Chacon, built using Ruby on Rails in February 2008.
Back in 2015, we finally got Silicon Dales onto GitHub. It’s the versioning tool of choice for most of our partners and counterparts, so we hauled our assets from internal tools and SVN over to GitHub. There was no need to swim against the tide forever! Note all of our projects and most of our …
