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Git is an excellent,[br]and industry-recognized

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version-control system.

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GitHub.com, the website,[br]makes that accessible to everyone.

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It's easy to think that you could host

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your Git repositories anywhere.

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There's plenty of services,

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and plenty of tools for you to host them

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even within your own corporate firewall.

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But there's more[br]than just hosting your code.

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We're talking about changing software,

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and that includes all types,[br]and all facets of collaboration:

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filing issues, organizing repositories[br]so they're easy to find,

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being able to mention[br]the contributors by user name,

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and the ability to have control[br]over the inbound changes,

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through the concept[br]that we call <i>pull requests</i>.

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All of these are facilitated[br]by GitHub.com,

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a collaboration platform[br]that also hosts Git repositories.

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Your first interaction with GitHub[br]is likely through the <i>Explore</i> page,

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finding a bit of open source

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that solves a need[br]in your current application.

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But soon, you'll find[br]you want to file an issue,

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or perhaps even[br]submit a change to a project

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that improves it, or corrects a defect.

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Those are all things[br]that are made possible

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by the GitHub platform.

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You'll find that we have solutions,

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such as an integrated defect tracker,

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and the process of pull requests,

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to which code change can get reviewed,

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commented on, refined,[br]and then finally accepted,

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even for people[br]that are not core contributors

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to the project itself.

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GitHub adds further innovations[br]that allow Git to go places

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that it wouldn't ordinarily[br]have been welcome.

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For example, we have an SvnBridge[br]that allows any Git repository

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to be treated as a subversion repository.

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This often facilitates a slow migration

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of continuous integration infrastructure,

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build scripts, or other automation

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that you've built into[br]your release process.

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GitHub also has the concept of the