This is the landing page for information about GitHub. We will be looking at the different features and explain what they are used for and their usefulness. Let us start by defining what is GitHub? The GitHub documentation states that GitHub is a cloud-based platform where you can store, share and work together with others to write code. This is a very good description of what GitHub is. It has also evolved throughout the years to what it is now. It has become a very useful tool for organizations since it off loads the need to be able to setup and maintain this type of system. While this is not the only platform that can be used. There are others that can be used like Bitbucket and GitLab. I have use these two tools in and out of a work environment during my career. These two tools are just as useful but have difference between the two. This doesn’t imply that GitHub is necessarily better than either one but that they both provide similar features which are implemented differently.

GitHub provides the ability to mange the development of a project by providing the following features.

While the above offers a general explanation of what they are used for. They don’t describe the details of these features that are provided by GitHub. GitHub offers these features for any repository that was created within GitHub. They just describe what can be done with a particular repository. These repositories are created using Git and are managed by GitHub. There are other features that go beyond the above features that will be discussed within this section.

While we can continue to discuss more about what GitHub has to offer but we will look at these features within their own sections. Currently, the sidebar on the left lists different sections that describe the GitHub frequently used features.