About GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers.

GitHub is where the world builds software. Over 83 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together across 200+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Collaborative coding

• Contribute to projects quickly with automatic environment setup.
• Make sure you see the changes you care about.
• Build community around your code.

Automation and CI/CD

• Automate everything: CI/CD, testing, planning, project management, issue labeling, approvals, onboarding, and more.
• Standardize and scale best practices, security, and compliance across your organization.
• Get started quickly with thousands of actions from partners and the community.

Security

• Secure code as you write it. Automatically review every change to your codebase and identify vulnerabilities before they reach production.
• Understand and address any vulnerabilities in your open source dependencies.
• Automatically detect and deactivate secrets committed to your repos.

Client apps

• Take GitHub with you on any connected device.
• Skip the visual UI with a quick, powerful text interface.
• Access GitHub from your macOS or Windows desktop.

Project management

• Keep feature requests, bugs, and more organized with GitHub Issues — engineered for software teams.
• Coordinate initiatives big and small with project tables, boards, and tasks lists.
• Track what you deliver down to the commit.

Team administration

• Simplify access and permissions management across your projects and teams.
• Update permissions, add new users as you grow, and give everyone the exact permissions they need.
• Sync with Okta and Azure Active Directory.