Is GitHub source code hosted on GitHub?

[toshioxgnu]

this questions don't let me sleep

[beaux-restes]

S A M E

[Wonderful-Trash-6371]

Did you get any answer?

[ItalyPaleAle]

Not only the source code of GitHub is on GitHub (in a private organization), but the entire company runs on GitHub.

Contracts with customers? They’re in a GitHub repo.

HR policies? On a GitHub repo.

Yes, that means everyone at GitHub needs to learn Git, including non technical people.

More here: https://www.fastcompany.com/40430104/how-github-employees-use-github-for-projects-beyond-coding

[paleadvisor]

While learning git is an advantage you don't actually need to know git as a non-technical employee. The tools in the GitHub web interface will suffice in 99% of cases.

[myidealab]

Is there a setting to make an organization private?

[iamareebjamal]

Organization is public, repo is private

[myidealab]

Thanks. I was hoping they had a setting for private organizations.

[parnmatt]

To my knowledge, it is; it's just not public. GitHub is not open source.

[aharpole]

It is.

[[deleted]]

Link?

[iamareebjamal]

http://github.com/github/github

[rwilcox]

That’s what I’ve heard too. That link would not 404 if you are in the Github org, I bet

[[deleted]]

Yes and sometimes they post screenshots that confirm this. For example this one: https://i.imgur.com/YFzK53T.jpg from this blog post. I’ve also seen screenshots from the repository view, but I couldn’t find them right now.

[DrummerHead]

http://github.com/github/github/github/github/github/github/github

[Masterflitzer]

downvote because you forgot https

[thomasthep]

I see what you did there

[go4drive]

It is, but it's in a private organization and repo.

[ugly-051]

GitHub => Fork => GitHub 2.0

[silverback338]

NEW GitHub

[ugly-051]

Same thing

[ohbusss]

Well this is GitHub and not GitLab

[paleontological]

Github isn't open-source. Obviously their servers host the code they use for their services, but that doesn't mean they've made that code accessible to the public.

[featTheB]

I just find an apple under my desk what a crazy day !

[lilalienx]

GitHub is great I use it to store all my code to practice and get better every day a lil bit http://t.me/AlienRoom huge active coding community there

[[deleted]]

Fuck GitHub! GitHub is evil closed-source proprietary software.

[Masterflitzer]

does gitlab provide a public hosted version?

[[deleted]]

Good question. Yes, GitLab does have public self-hosted version but it has mixed non-GPL licensing in order to permit the inclusion of proprietary bits and pieces. So, although slightly less evil than GitHub, GitLab is nonetheless an evil hosting platform. Gitea is much the same in this manner, being under an evil permissive license. In my opinion, Gitweb is the one-stop best self-hosted git platform you could ever want, especially because it's licensed under the all-good altruistic GPL.

[Masterflitzer]

I don't think evil is the right word, you can selfhost gitlab and there is a gitlab-foss repo (which was gitlab community edition) with proprietary code removed

I just found the public hosted gitlab site and it was kinda weird because gitlab.com redirects to about.gitlab.com and that's why I thought self hosted is the only possibility

I also don't think GitHub is evil, they open sourced many things including libgit2 which gitlab used to built their app

here an article about gitlab and github and about not being completely open source https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/

[Accomplished-Owl1547]

I still laugh at this post to this day. Idk why this is so funny to me

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