GitHub Overview
What is GitHub?
GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over a million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, the development platform helps individuals and teams to write better code, faster.
From open source to business, users can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside millions of other developers. GitHub brings teams together to work through problems, move ideas forward, and learn from each other along the way. On GitHub, lightweight code review tools are built into every pull request.
Teams can create review processes that improve the quality of code and fit neatly into the workflow. Project managers and developers can coordinate, track, and update their work in one place, so projects stay transparent and on schedule. Users can fine tune the process as the team changes, update tools as technologies shift, and find new ways to work better.
GitHub Overview
Cost
Pricing options
Developer: $7 per month
Team: $9 per user / month
Business:
$21 per user / month, Hosted on GitHub.com
$21 per user / month, GitHub Enterprise (Sold in packs of 10 users and billed annually.)
Free plans available.
GitHub Features
Screenshots
GitHub Reviews
GitHub Reviews
Make development less time-consuming, with GitHub, so long you're experienced with it
GitHub helped us to reduce the hassle with bug identifying and is having good analytics to track the activity of our development team, and that's helping the project management. Collaboration is made a lot easier with GitHub, and the best problem we resolved with GitHub is the integration with automated testing and deploying platforms. The changelog can be managed very easily, which is providing benefits to locate code changes.
Works seamlessly - I've used it for 4+ years as a student!
It's incredibly useful & seamless. Wouldn't use any other product over this.
A software you don't really have a choice but to use.
I use github for version control at work. Our code goes up to two different sets of reviewers and this all takes place via github.
Github is a great product for small and medium sized engineering teams
I feel Github has good things going for it. But, Github should find a way to make the information on the profile page of a user valuable for a recruiter. Most developers aren't getting any value by uploading their code on Github and thus missing active users.
gilmar review of github
overall my experience has been great. in fact i have met a few other like minded people on github.
its great place to learn a bit of everything in software devlopment.
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Make development less time-consuming, with GitHub, so long you're experienced with it
Pros
GitHub is a great Source Code Management platform for our company. We've been hassling with finding out where a specific bug occurred, and hassled with manually testing code, but with GitHub, we automated a huge part! Since GitHub is a known platform, there are many integrations, which helps us with testing and notifying, and as well finding at what commit a specific issue occurred! Since it provides a good UI, viewing information and reading code is easy to do from the website, and development can be done easily using the CLI or GitHub's GUI. Most CI/CD solutions are supporting GitHub, so deploying from GitHub isn't a hassle!
Cons
GitHub is pretty advanced. We have thought about letting our Customer Service use GitHub for reporting issues and letting them have conversations with engineers, but it ended up with lots of questions, since GitHub's design isn't that simple.
Works seamlessly - I've used it for 4+ years as a student!
It's incredibly useful & seamless. Wouldn't use any other product over this.
Pros
It's incredibly easy to set up & use from a Mac. I store all of my projects in GitHub (I used to store them on Google Drive, but Cloud + Version Control is much better!)
Cons
It would be nice to be able to deploy Jupyter Notebooks to a Github Server where they could be interacted with. I suppose this could be done with the .github.io URL's - but a guide on how to do this would be awesome to advertise.
A software you don't really have a choice but to use.
I use github for version control at work. Our code goes up to two different sets of reviewers and this all takes place via github.
Pros
Github is really your only choice for version control. There are other platforms out there but Github has cornered the market. It's free, which is a bonus.
Cons
It's pretty difficult to start using. It's not intuitive at all. Many times, I have merge conflicts and when I go to edit them within github, it corrupts my branch. There are a lot of ins and outs and nuances that aren't easily navigated around when utilizing Github. I frequently get errors that have no documentation or support.
Github is a great product for small and medium sized engineering teams
I feel Github has good things going for it. But, Github should find a way to make the information on the profile page of a user valuable for a recruiter. Most developers aren't getting any value by uploading their code on Github and thus missing active users.
Pros
The product was easy to use and easily configurable with existing tools. Even new developers feel at home as they have practiced using Github while learning in colleges and Bootcamps. Github also provides student developer pack which puts them in good standing among them.
Cons
The UI of the app/website seems a little dated. The new mobile app lacks basic features compared to the website like suggesting the name of the person who commented on an issue in the 'assign list'. It makes It very frustrating to assign a PR to a user who commented to work on the issue.
gilmar review of github
overall my experience has been great. in fact i have met a few other like minded people on github.
its great place to learn a bit of everything in software devlopment.
Pros
I like GitHub software because I can push my source code of my app directly to my android studio. and from the android studio back to the GitHub, so that if am working on mobile with other developers we can all share and be updated in a unified form
Cons
it's not free, you need to learn the program before you jump to private handling of codes. It takes a little bit of getting used to but after that it's fine. git hub desktop is also not so easy to learn but once you do you be sharing and updating directly from your studio machine. instead of going from GitHub site to software and back again.
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GitHub Pricing
GitHub Pricing
Developer: $7 per month
Team: $9 per user / month
Business:
$21 per user / month, Hosted on GitHub.com
$21 per user / month, GitHub Enterprise (Sold in packs of 10 users and billed annually.)
Free plans available.
Developer: $7 per month
Team: $9 per user / month
Business:
$21 per user / month, Hosted on GitHub.com
$21 per user / month, GitHub Enterprise (Sold in packs of 10 users and billed annually.)
Free plans available.
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GitHub Features
GitHub Features
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Categories
Categories
Videos and Tutorials
Videos and Tutorials
Additional information for GitHub
Additional information for GitHub
Key features of GitHub
- @mentions
- Approximately 6 million hosted git repositories
- Assignees
- Built-in review tools
- Code hosting
- Code review
- Collaboration
- Conversations
- Documentation
- GitHub Pages
- Give feedback
- Graphical representation of branches
- Integrated issue and bug tracking
- Integrations
- Milestones
- Project management
- Propose changes
- Protect branches
- Set community guidelines
- Social coding
- Team and user permissions
- Team management
- Track and assign tasks
- Wikis
Benefits
GitHub FAQs
GitHub FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for GitHub.
Q. What type of pricing plans does GitHub offer?
GitHub offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 7.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Developer: $7 per month Team: $9 per user / month Business: $21 per user / month, Hosted on GitHub.com $21 per user / month, GitHub Enterprise (Sold in packs of 10 users and billed annually.) Free plans available.
Q. What are the main features of GitHub?
GitHub offers the following features:
- @mentions
- Approximately 6 million hosted git repositories
- Assignees
- Built-in review tools
- Code hosting
- Code review
- Collaboration
- Conversations
- Documentation
- GitHub Pages
- Give feedback
- Graphical representation of branches
- Integrated issue and bug tracking
- Integrations
- Milestones
- Project management
- Propose changes
- Protect branches
- Set community guidelines
- Social coding
- Team and user permissions
- Team management
- Track and assign tasks
- Wikis
Q. Who are the typical users of GitHub?
GitHub has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Q. What languages does GitHub support?
GitHub supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does GitHub offer?
GitHub has the following pricing plans:
Free, Subscription
Q. Does GitHub support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices GitHub supports
Q. What other apps does GitHub integrate with?
GitHub integrates with the following applications:
Bitium, Cube, HipChat, JIRA, LeanKit, Planbox Work, SpiraPlan, SpiraTeam, Yodiz, Zoho BugTracker
Q. What level of support does GitHub offer?
GitHub offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Video Tutorials
GitHub helped us to reduce the hassle with bug identifying and is having good analytics to track the activity of our development team, and that's helping the project management. Collaboration is made a lot easier with GitHub, and the best problem we resolved with GitHub is the integration with automated testing and deploying platforms. The changelog can be managed very easily, which is providing benefits to locate code changes.