GitHub

GitHub is a web-based platform for hosting and collaborating on code using Git, the distributed version control system originally created by Linus Torvalds. Git itself tracks changes to files over time, letting multiple people work on the same project, branch off to try changes safely, and merge work back together with a full history of who changed what and when. GitHub adds a hosted, social layer on top of that — repositories, pull requests, issue tracking, and a place for Open Source projects to gather contributors from anywhere in the world.

A typical workflow involves cloning a repository to a local machine, making changes, then committing those changes with a message describing what was done, and pushing them back up to GitHub — at which point they’re recorded in the project’s history and, depending on the setup, can trigger automated processes like tests or deployments.

GitHub has become the default home for a huge share of the world’s open source code, and is also widely used privately by individuals and companies for projects that never become public at all.

Role in this vault

GitHub is the backbone of this vault’s publishing pipeline: this vault’s underlying repository lives on GitHub, and every git push from local changes is what triggers Cloudflare Pages to rebuild and redeploy the live site via Quartz.