GitHub Glossary Definition

GitHub is a repository-hosting and collaboration platform used for Technical Documentation.

GitHub is a repository-hosting and developer-collaboration platform owned by Microsoft. It is included because Microsoft ownership or ecosystem integration makes the product professionally relevant.

Teams use it for documentation source files, issues, pull requests, reviews, wikis, GitHub Pages, and docs-as-code publishing pipelines.

Related concepts include Git, Version Control and Docs as Code.

Developers and documentation teams use it for Git repositories, issues, pull requests, Actions, Pages, packages, and collaborative software delivery.