# What is GitHub used for?

What is GitHub used for?

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question
- Net upvotes: 4


## Comments
### Comment 1

If you're a Programmer or a CS student, then GitHub is a place where you can save all your code files. It is a platform where you can store and manage your code. It has also evolved into the social media for programmers where they upload their code and showoff there skill.

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Data Programmer @ Epsilon | Stanford UIF
- Net upvotes: 2


### Comment 2

GitHub is used for version control and collaboration on software projects. It allows developers to store code, track changes, manage versions, and work together through features like pull requests, issues, and project boards.

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- Posted at: 7 months ago
- Author title: Computer Science Student | Aspiring Software Developer | Passionate About Full-Stack Development & Problem Solving



### Comment 3

Its basically called as VCS ie Version Control System, specifically used by developer for storing code. We can retrieve perticular version also.

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- Posted at: 7 months ago
- Author title: .NET | SQL | JQuery | Angular | CDAC certified



### Comment 4

GitHub is used for storing, sharing, and collaborating on code projects using version control.

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- Posted at: about 1 year ago
- Author title: Engineering Intern @ McLaren Automotive Ltd | Software Engineer | Raspberry Pi, Microcontrollers & Low-Level Systems Enthusiast | AUBH Computer Engineering Graduate



### Comment 5

It is version control system.

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- Posted at: over 1 year ago
- Author title: software developer



### Comment 6

GitHub is a collaborative platform for developers.The platform  assists the developers to store their solution online . GitHub is used also like a continuous integration and delivery server thanks to Git Actions  and Git.

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- Posted at: almost 2 years ago
- Author title: Entrepreneur



### Comment 7

to deploy your code product to public or do private collaboration practices at a single platform. or you can participate in open source contributions .

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- Posted at: almost 2 years ago
- Author title: Student at New Science College



### Comment 8

- store software source code
- use actions to execute CI / CD and publish artefacts / create releases
- lightweight software project management

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Project Lead




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