Multiple desktop clients and Git plugins have also been created by GitHub and other third parties that integrate with the platform. GitHub also allows registered and non-registered users to browse public repositories on the site. Projects on GitHub can be accessed and manipulated using the standard Git command-line interface and all of the standard Git commands work with it. Hyett and Scott Chacon after it had been made available for a few months prior as a beta release. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. On June 19, 2018, GitHub expanded its GitHub Education by offering free education bundles to all schools.ĭevelopment of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2007. On June 4, 2018, Microsoft announced it had reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion. On February 28, 2018, GitHub fell victim to the second largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history, with incoming traffic reaching a peak of about 1.35 terabits per second. The round valued the company at approximately $2 billion. On July 29, 2015, GitHub announced it had raised $250 million in funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital. In June 2015, GitHub opened an office in Japan that is its first office outside of the U.S. On December 23, 2013, GitHub announced it had reached 10 million repositories. On January 16, 2013, GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories. On July 9, 2012, Peter Levine, general partner at GitHub investor Andreessen Horowitz, stated that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly the entire way". On June 2, 2011, ReadWriteWeb reported that GitHub had surpassed SourceForge and Google Code in total number of commits for the period of January to May 2011. On April 20, 2011, GitHub announced that it was hosting 2 million repositories. On July 25, 2010, GitHub announced that it was hosting 1 million repositories. On July 27, 2009, in another talk delivered at Yahoo!, Preston-Werner announced that GitHub had grown to host 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories. On July 5, 2009, GitHub announced that the site was now harnessed by over 100,000 users.
At that time, about 6,200 repositories had been forked at least once and 4,600 had been merged. On February 24, 2009, GitHub team members announced, in a talk at Yahoo! headquarters, that within the first year of being online, GitHub had accumulated over 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of which were formed in the previous month alone. The company, GitHub, Inc., has existed since 2007 and is located in San Francisco. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008. GitHub was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. As of January 2019, GitHub offers unlimited private repositories to all plans, including free accounts.Īs of June 2018, GitHub reports having over 28 million users and 57 million repositories (including 28 million public repositories), making it the largest host of source code in the world. GitHub offers plans for enterprise, team, pro and free accounts which are commonly used to host open-source software projects. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git.