GitHub information

GitHub.com
	GitHub Invertocat logo
Type of business	Subsidiary
Type of site	Collaborative version control
Available in	English
Founded	February 8, 2008; 16 years ago (as Logical Awesome LLC)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Tom Preston-Werner; Chris Wanstrath; P. J. Hyett; Scott Chacon;
Key people	Thomas Dohmke (CEO); Mike Taylor (CFO); Kyle Daigle (COO);
Industry	Collaborative version control (GitHub) ; AI development tools (GitHub Copilot); Blog host (GitHub Pages) ; Package repository (NPM)
Revenue	$1 billion (2022)
Employees	5,595
Parent	Microsoft
URL	github.com
Registration	Optional (required for creating and joining repositories)
Users	100 million (as of January 2023)
Launched	April 10, 2008; 16 years ago
Current status	Active
Written in	Ruby ; JavaScript ; Go ; C ; Rust
ASN	36459

GitHub (/ˈɡɪthʌb/^[a]) is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. It uses Git software, providing the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.^[7] Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.^[8]

It is commonly used to host open source software development projects.^[9] As of January 2023^[update], GitHub reported having over 100 million developers^[10] and more than 420 million repositories,^[11] including at least 28 million public repositories.^[12] It is the world's largest source code host as of June 2023^[update].

^ "New Year, New Company". GitHub.
^ "Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users". TechCrunch. October 25, 2022. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
^ "GitHub Diversity". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
^ "GitHub". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
^ "GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust". ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
^ "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git (at 00:01:30)". Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 2022-10-03 – via YouTube.
^ Williams, Alex (July 9, 2012). "GitHub Pours Energies into Enterprise – Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2017. Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub
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^ "The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub". Wired. June 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
^ Dohmke, Thomas (2023-01-25). "100 million developers and counting". The GitHub Blog. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
^ "Github Number of Repositories". GitHub. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
^ "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Showing 28,177,992 available repository results

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[1] "New Year, New Company". GitHub.

[techcrunch.com-2] "Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users". TechCrunch. October 25, 2022. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.

[3] "GitHub Diversity". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019.

[4] "GitHub". GitHub. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved 2020-09-06.

[5] "GitHub built a new search engine for code from scratch in Rust". ZDnet. Retrieved April 22, 2023.

[6] "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git (at 00:01:30)". Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 2022-10-03 – via YouTube.

[hugeinvestment-8] Williams, Alex (July 9, 2012). "GitHub Pours Energies into Enterprise – Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2017. Andreessen Horowitz is investing an eye-popping $100 million into GitHub

[techcrunch-9] Cite error: The named reference techcrunch was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[10] "The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub". Wired. June 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.

[11] Dohmke, Thomas (2023-01-25). "100 million developers and counting". The GitHub Blog. Retrieved 2023-01-25.

[12] "Github Number of Repositories". GitHub. Retrieved February 26, 2024.

[13] "Repository search for public repositories". GitHub. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Showing 28,177,992 available repository results

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