42 Facts About GitHub

GitHub, Inc, is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git.

GitHub, Inc was originally a flat organization with no middle managers; in other words, "everyone is a manager".

In 2014, GitHub, Inc introduced a layer of middle management amid harassment claims made against senior management.

The GitHub service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P J Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008.

The company, GitHub, Inc, has existed since 2007 and is located in San Francisco.

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On February 24,2009, GitHub announced 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.

ReadWriteWeb reported that GitHub had surpassed SourceForge and Google Code in total number of commits for the period of January to May 2011.

On January 16,2013, GitHub passed the 3 million users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories.

In 2012, GitHub raised $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz with a $750 million valuation.

On July 29,2015, GitHub stated it had raised $250 million in funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital.

In 2015, GitHub opened an office in Japan, its first outside of the US In 2016, GitHub was ranked No 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.

On February 28,2018, GitHub fell victim to the third-largest distributed denial-of-service attack in history, with incoming traffic reaching a peak of about 1.

On June 19,2018, GitHub expanded its GitHub Education by offering free education bundles to all schools.

From 2012, Microsoft became a significant user of GitHub, using it to host open-source projects and development tools such as.

GitHub continued to operate independently as a community, platform and business.

Harvard Business Review argued that Microsoft was intending to acquire GitHub to get access to its user base, so it can be used as a loss leader to encourage the use of its other development products and services.

In February 2020, GitHub launched in India under the name GitHub India Private Limited.

In March 2020, GitHub announced that they were acquiring npm, a JavaScript packaging vendor, for an undisclosed sum of money.

GitHub's mascot is an anthropomorphized "octocat" with five octopus-like arms.

GitHub became interested in Oxley's work after Twitter selected a bird that he designed for their own logo.

The illustration GitHub chose was a character that Oxley had named Octopuss.

Since GitHub wanted Octopuss for their logo, they negotiated with Oxley to buy exclusive rights to the image.

GitHub renamed Octopuss to Octocat, and trademarked the character along with the new name.

Later, GitHub hired illustrator Cameron McEfee to adapt Octocat for different purposes on the website and promotional materials; McEfee and various GitHub users have since created hundreds of variations of the character, which are available on The Octodex.

Fundamental software that underpins GitHub is Git itself, written by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.

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GitHub is seamlessly integrated with Jekyll static website and blog generator and GitHub continuous integration pipelines.

GitHub operates a pastebin-style site called Gist, which is for code snippets, as opposed to GitHub proper, which is for larger projects.

GitHub launched a new program called the GitHub Student Developer Pack to give students over the age of 13 free access to popular development tools and services.

GitHub partnered with Bitnami, Crowdflower, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, HackHands, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screenhero, SendGrid, Stripe, Travis CI, and Unreal Engine to launch the program.

In 2016 GitHub announced the launch of the GitHub Campus Experts program to train and encourage students to grow technology communities at their universities.

GitHub provides some software as a service integrations for adding extra features to projects.

GitHub Sponsors allows users to make monthly money donations to projects hosted on GitHub.

In July 2020, GitHub stored a February archive of the site in an abandoned mountain mine in Svalbard, Norway, part of the Arctic World Archive and not far from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

On July 25,2019, a developer based in Iran wrote on Medium that GitHub had blocked his private repositories and prohibited access to GitHub pages.

However, GitHub reopened access to GitHub Pages days later, for public repositories regardless of location.

GitHub responded to complaints and the media through a spokesperson, saying:.

GitHub is subject to US trade control laws, and is committed to full compliance with applicable law.

GitHub has forbidden the use of VPNs and IP proxies to access the site from sanctioned countries, as purchase history and IP addresses are how they flag users, among other sources.

On October 8,2016, Turkey blocked GitHub to prevent email leakage of a hacked account belonging to the country's energy minister.

The attack, which appeared to originate from China, primarily targeted GitHub-hosted user content describing methods of circumventing Internet censorship.

GitHub has a $200,000 contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the use of their on-site product GitHub Enterprise Server.

Detractors of GitHub describe the branch renaming to be a form of performative activism and have urged GitHub to cancel their ICE contract instead.