All About Github

1. Q. What is a version control system?
   A. Software that keeps track of every modification to the code in a special kind of database.

2. Q. What is Git?
   A. A mature, actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Tovalds, the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel. Git is relied on for version control for a number of software projects.

3. Q. What is GitHub?
   A. GitHub is an online software development platform, used for storing, tracking, and collaborating on software projects.

4. Q. What is the difference between Git and GitHub
   A. The difference is that Git is a version control system that allow developers to track changes in their code while GitHub is a hosting service for git repositories.

5. Q. Who started GitHub and how was it started?
   A. The original developers of GitHub were Chris Wanstrath, P.J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon, using Ruby on Rails (open-source full-stack framework software specifically to build different web applications).

6. Q. What company owns it now?
   A. Microsoft Co.

7. Q. How much does a GitHub account cost?
   A. Looking at the different plans, there are three options, with serveral add ons:

   Plan Options	Pricing
   Basic Plan/Organization	Free
   Team Plan	$3.67 per user/month for first 12 months*
   Enterprise Plan	$19.25 per user/month for the first 12 months*
   Additional add-ons
   GitHub Copilot	Starting at $10/month
   Codespaces	Starting at $0.18/hr of compute and $0.07/GB of storage
   Large File Storage	$5/month for 50 GB bandwidth and 50 GB for storage
   GitHub Advanced Security	$49 per month/active committer

   
   
8. Q. What is the Octocat?
   A. The mascot of the source-code hosting service GitHub.

Git/GitHub terms:

• Repository:
  A centralized digital storage that developers use to make and manage changes to an application's source code.

• Commit:
  The making of a set of tentative changes permanent, marking the end of a transaction and providing Durability to ACID transactions.

• Fork:
  An operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself.

• Pull Requests:
  An event that takes place in software development when a contributor/developer is ready to begin the process of merging new code changes with the main project repository.

• Workflows:
  A series of steps related to processing data.

• Issues:
  Any situation that occurs that is unexpected or prevents something from occuring.

• Raw Button:
  Opens a file in a raw form, meaning that any HTML formatting disappears.

• Blame Button:
  Used to examine the contents of a file line by line and see when each line was last modified and who the author of the modification was.