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GitHub

GitHub is an open-source version-control and collaboration platform for software developers. GitHub, which is delivered through a software as a service (SaaS) business model, was started in 2008 and was founded on Git, an open-source code management system created by Linus Torvalds to make software builds faster.

Git is used to store the source code for a project and track the complete history of all changes to that code. It allows developers to collaborate on a project more effectively by providing tools for managing possibly conflicting changes from multiple developers. GitHub facilitates social coding by providing a Web interface to the Git code repository and management tools for collaboration. GitHub allows developers to change, adapt and improve software from its public repositories for free but it charges for private repositories, offering three types of paid plans. Each public or private repository contains all of a project's files as well as each file's revision history. Repositories can have multiple collaborators and can be either public or private.