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What code can I use GitHub for?

What code (which coding languages) can I use for GitHub? Can I use it for websites? Flash? Can I upload image files and other resources?

(I am completely new to Git and SVN.)

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In git, svn and mercurial:

git, svn, Mercurial - all version control systems. svn was a big improvement over cvs, a commonly used version control system before the new VCS. svn like cvs has a client server model. git and mercurial provides a distributed version control system that is network independent, since any repository autonomously contains all history and change records. Of course, there are other goodies.

Remember that the version control system solves the "cat ate my code" problem. You can use it to track any type of development - code, text documents, etc.

On github, bitbucket, code.google.com and codplex:

They provide additional benefits in addition to what the version control system provides.

  • They provide you with storage for your repository, which you can access and share with it.
  • When sharing code, you'll also want to provide documentation. They provide wiki support for this purpose.
  • They also provide a ticket / error management system that can facilitate a development project.

In short, they provide various tools that can help with project management and your code development.

As you gain knowledge in some of these areas, the following links will be very helpful:

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You can use GitHub for any source code you want to manage.

But you can also use GitHub for your blog (!) , The idea is that you will manage your articles and their changes as you do for the source code base.
(Example: git-blog )

More general docs: GitHub features (wiki, bug tracking, code viewing ...).

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Git does not limit the files that you can track with it ... use Github for something that needs to be tracked in your project!

Check out http://help.github.com/ for some documentation on how to get started with Git in conjunction with GitHub.

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Version control can be applied to any type of file. From text to images in Flash. Subversion is my version control system, and I host my own Subversion server.

Regarding Git. Well Git is another version control system. Again, the same rules apply as any type of version. Git-Hub is a public Git server that you can register and use. You can make your repository public or private.

However, you cannot host a site on Git-hub. You can do rudimentary blogs and use Git -feeds to serve your site, but you cannot use it as a traditional website.

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