Git what?

For newbie Mamas getting into serious Tech, here is one word/term I have heard developers mention so often. I now know the meaning.

GitHub.

GitHub is a Web-based revision control hosting service for software development and code sharing.

The service offers free public repositories and collaborations for open-source software creation and charges small and large businesses for private repositories and collaboration.

From a social perspective, this hosting service allows users to change, adapt and improve software — each project is called a “fork” — in its public repositories. Users can work together in teams or alone.

Public users create profiles which display repositories and public activity and help programmers find projects.

GitHub was started in 2008 and based on Git, an open-source code management system built created by Linus Torvalds to make software builds faster. Over the years, this company has become popular among developers and companies hosting entire projects, documentation, and code. Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use this resource.

In June 208, Microsoft confirmed that it was planning to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. To learn more about this acquisition, visit the Verge.