GitHub, Inc.

is an American multinational corporation that provides hosting for

software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed
version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own
features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug
tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.[4]
Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.[5]

GitHub offers its basic services free of charge. Its more advanced professional and
enterprise services are commercial.[6] Free GitHub accounts are commonly used to
host open-source projects.[7] As of January 2019, GitHub offers unlimited private
repositories to all plans, including free accounts, but allowed only up to three
collaborators per repository for free.[8] Starting from April 15, 2020, the free
plan allows unlimited collaborators, but restricts private repositories to 2,000
actions minutes per month.[9] As of January 2020, GitHub reports having over 40
million users[10] and more than 100 million repositories[11] (including at least 28
million public repositories),[12] making it the largest host of source code in the
world.[13]

Contents
1 History
1.1 Worldwide offices
1.2 Acquisition by Microsoft
2 Company affairs
2.1 Organizational structure
2.2 Finance
2.3 Mascot
3 Services
3.1 GitHub.com
3.1.1 Scope
3.2 GitHub Enterprise
3.3 GitHub Pages
3.4 Gist
3.5 Education program
3.6 GitHub Marketplace service
3.7 GitHub Sponsors
4 GitHub Archive Program
5 Controversies
5.1 Harassment allegations
5.2 Sanctions
5.3 Censorship
5.4 ICE Contract
6 Developed projects
7 Prominent users
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History

GitHub at AWS Summit

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.[14]

The shading of the map illustrates the number of users as a proportion of each
country's Internet population. The circular charts surrounding the two hemispheres
depict the total number of GitHub users (left) and commits (right) per country.
On February 24, 2009, GitHub team members announced, in a talk at Yahoo!
headquarters, 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
alone. At that time, about 6,200 repositories had been forked at least once and
4,600 had been merged.

In 2009, GitHub announced that the site was being harnessed by over 100,000 users.
In another 2009 interview with Yahoo!, Preston-Werner announced that GitHub had
grown to host 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least
once, for a total of 135,000 repositories.[15]

In 2010, GitHub announced that it was hosting 1 million repositories.[16] A year

later, this number doubled.[17] ReadWriteWeb reported that GitHub had surpassed
SourceForge and Google Code in total number of commits for the period of January to
May 2011.[18] On January 16, 2013, GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million
users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories.[19] By the end of
the year, the number of repositories were twice as much, reaching 10 million
repositories.[20]

In 2012, GitHub raised $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz with $750
million valuation.[21] Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, stated
that GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly
the entire way".[22] On July 29, 2015, GitHub announced it had raised $250 million
in funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors of this round include
Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and IVP (Institutional Venture Partners).[23]
The round valued the company at approximately $2 billion.[24]

In 2016, GitHub was ranked No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.[25]

On February 28, 2018, GitHub fell victim to the second largest distributed denial-
of-service (DDoS) attack in history, with incoming traffic reaching a peak of about
1.35 terabits per second.[26]

On June 19, 2018, GitHub expanded its GitHub Education by offering free education
bundles to all schools.[27][28]

In early July 2020, the GitHub Archive Program was established, to archive its open
source code in perpetuity (see below).[29]

Worldwide offices
In 2015, GitHub opened an office in Japan that is its first office outside of the
U.S.[30] Five years later, GitHub launched in India under the name GitHub India
Private Limited.[31]