What is "github"

Github is a Shared Web Hosting Service for projects that use Git versioning control. It is written in Ruby on Rails by the developers of Logical Awesome (Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Tom Preston - Wernder). Github has free business plans for open source projects.

This site has features of a social network such as feeds, followers, wiki and a chart that shows how developers work versions of their repositories.

Github also has a service similar to Pastebin called Gist.

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