Getting started with GitHub


Why GitHub? 

There are several Git repositories that offer git VCS but GitHub is most popular and widely used repository.
It is free and used by million developers including Linus Torvalds (The creator of Linux)
Many organizations use GitHub.





Many popular code repositories are hosted on GitHub:

The source code of Linux kernel is hosted on GitHub by Linus Torvalds himself.

Source code of git itself can be found on GitHub:
https://github.com/git/git

Sign Up

First step to become part of 50M+ developers' GitHub community is to signup and then sign in

Note: username & password are important to use repositories from command line/client PC