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What Is GitHub?

Explore GitHub as a remote code hosting platform that stores your codebase and its revision history. Learn how to create an account, set up remote repositories, and collaborate with others by synchronizing changes and contributing to open source projects.

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A code hosting platform

GitHub is a code hosting platform. Git creates a local repository on every contributor’s computer, which contains the entire codebase and its revision history. You can consider GitHub as a platform that stores the whole codebase in a remote repository.

By enabling the creation of remote repositories, ...

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