Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: GitHub Inc is one of the web-hosting services that are being controlled by git.These are mostly implemented for computer codes.In addition to offering all the distributed version control and SCM (Source Code Management) functionalities, it also provides its own features.In its every project, it offers access control and features like bug tracking, feature request, task manager, wiki's etc.Both private repositories and free accounts (which is mostly occupied for hosing open-source software projects) gains plans with the help of GitHub.According to the report made for June 2018 it is the largest host of the source code containing 28 million users, 57 million repositories which includes 28 million public repositories.GitHub is both version controlled and collaboration platform used for software development.GitHub is being generally delivered as SaaS (Software-asa-service) business model, is an open source code management system found on Git during 2008 which was created by Linus Torvalds to construct software at a quicker phase.
Author: B. Meena Preethi
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2912926502