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posted by takyon on Friday July 31 2015, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the git-rich-quick dept.

GitHub has received a $250m infusion of venture-capital cash that values the code-sharing website at $2bn.

That means it's worth more than ZenDesk ($1.78bn), slightly less than the New York Times ($2.17bn), and more than stricken Yelp ($1.87bn).

The San Francisco-based upstart said its Series-B funding round was led by VC bigwigs Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Institutional Venture Partners. The round is the second major fundraising push for GitHub. In 2012, the site raised $100m in venture funding. GitHub was founded in 2008, and today has about 300 total employees.

The site reports it hosts 25 million source code repositories, and has 10 million registered users and 33 million unique monthly visits.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Friday July 31 2015, @11:59AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday July 31 2015, @11:59AM (#216264) Homepage Journal

    I'm not familiar with that functionality then; I'm not sure any of us actually use it.That being said I encourage people to both comment their code *and* use descriptive commit messages. Generally if you're doing something unintivitive, or designing something, leave comments. Do you know how many C codebases i've had to dig through that are poorly labeled at best requiring a few hours to understand that could have been averted if someone spent a few minutes writing some decent commenting.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:30PM (#216495)

    Here is an example: https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67 [github.com] those comments are attached to that commit, which means they only show up when looking at the commit in the interface. That can be handy because you can do a commit for a possible bug fix or the like and users can comment directly on it as to what they like or don't. It also doesn't clog up the repo history with commits of "what about this?" "What about that?" that get squashed or rebased away but they do stay attached to that commit.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Saturday August 01 2015, @09:44AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Saturday August 01 2015, @09:44AM (#216716) Journal
      So, back to the original question: If GitHub dies and I need to migrate away, how do I move that to my new hosting solution?
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