Eli5 What does GitHub do? What is its purpose?

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  • pages-gem

    A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages

  • One of many because there are alternatives such as bitbicket. And even self hosted types like gitlab. All of these provide similar features related to git repositories, but there are additional features, such as GitHub pages, that could be unique.

  • git

    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  • Also make sure you are not confusing GitHub with the tool git.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • dc-law

  • Here’s the one for Washington, D.C.

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