GitHub.com - Hosted Repository for Git

Git is a mildly insulting term denoting a silly or foolish person. Git is also a distributed revision control, software management program created by the developer of the Linux kernel Linus Torvalds. GitHub while it may be used by the former, has to do with version control. It’s a repository for git services and collaboration. Ruby on Rails, Merb and RSpec use it; it’s popular amongst programmers for its functionality and social networking like attributes. GitHub allows users to easily fork projects, create new repositories and monitor development. Their pricing scheme targets both large enterprises and open source developers who haven’t got tons of funding. The free package comes with 100MB disk space and allows for an unlimited number of collaborators.

“Not only is Git the new hotness, it's a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.

GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease.”

GitHub smartly pulls together social networking with software development. It’s endowed with a simple, clean and elegant interface that works. Developers already love it, calling it a ‘game changer’. Basically, it brings in a smooth working interface coupling it with dynamic features geared for programmers of all sorts.

Will programmers be convinced—using a host for decentralized open source projects? Can you use GitHub without registration and sign up?