GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. According to the Git User’s Survey in 2008, GitHub is the most popular Git hosting site.
GitHub is written in Ruby on Rails by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner.
Why GitHub ?
- It offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects.
- The site provides social networking functionality like feeds, followers and the network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository.
- GitHub also operates a pastebin-style site at gist.github.com, wikis for the individual repositories and web pages that can be edited through a git repository.
In a latest talk at Yahoo on 2009-07-27, team members announced :read more
