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GitHub was a bootstrapped start-up business, which in its first years provided enough revenue to be funded solely by its three founders and start taking on employees. [ 24 ] In July 2012, four years after the company was founded, Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million in venture capital [ 8 ] with a $750 million valuation.
Gitea is an open-source software tool funded on Open Collective that is designed for self-hosting, but also provides a free first-party instance. GForge: The GForge Group, Inc. [8] 2006 Partial Yes Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version – free up to 5 users. GForge is free for open source projects. GitHub: GitHub, Inc.
A .gitignore file may be created in a Git repository as a plain text file. The files listed in the .gitignore file will not be tracked by Git. [69]: 3–4 This feature can be used to ignore files with keys or passwords, various extraneous files, and large files (which GitHub will refuse to upload). [70]
[note 3] Since its inception, over 11.9 million users have edited English Wikipedia at least once. [2] The number of users who have made more than 5 edits are 3.6 million (37,750 in the last month). [2] This amount of data can be analyzed in many ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics. This page shows some ...
Cloud computing relies on free and open-source software and avoids the distribution that triggers most licenses. Cloud software is hosted rather than distributed. [117] A vendor hosts the software online, and their end users do not have to download, access, or even know about the code in use. [118]
Growth (user) GitHub reports having over 9 million users and over 21.1 million repositories, making it the largest host of source code in the world. [118] 8 April: Product: GitHub announces Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Git LFS allows users to store and work with large binary files in Git. [119] [120] 30 April
VFS for Git was originally named Git Virtual File System (GVFS). However due to complaints by the developers of GNOME over confusion with GNOME Virtual File System , Microsoft announced that it would solicit ideas for a new name of the software in June 2018, following its acquisition of GitHub. [ 2 ]
The expression "readme file" is also sometimes used generically, for other files with a similar purpose. [citation needed] For example, the source-code distributions of many free software packages (especially those following the Gnits Standards or those produced with GNU Autotools) include a standard set of readme files: