GitHub’s work has even been an aide to its competitors, he adds. The Git Large File Storage (LFS) protocol was developed and open-sourced by GitHub, and it’s now in use at Atlassian and GitLab.

Along with Microsoft buying Github recently, we received hundreds of questions and comments about all things git. How does one install and run GitLab themselves? Should they? What's the difference ...

Git free GitLab is a direct competitor to GitHub and Atlassian's BitBucket. In fact, it's based on the same "Git" technology that GitHub is built around, hence the similar name.