GitHub is an online service to help people work together on projects
Let's look at a repository:
https://github.com/wit-hdip-comp-sci-2019/june-onsite-src
Let's go explore a little. Notice that the main features are based around concepts that we've already looked at.
There are many alternatives to GitHub, but like other social network scenarios, they suffer a bit from the "network effects" of GitHub. Here are 3 examples:
Pull Requests are the "killer feature" of GitHub. You create a "Pull Request" in a repository when you have changes on one branch (usually in a different copy of the repository) that you want to have merged into another branch. The owner or other maintainers can then review your changes, give you feedback, and hopefully eventually merge it.
This and other features in GitHub make it like a social network for free and open source software projects.