# GitHub Repository

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/github-repository

A GitHub Repository (or "repo") is a storage location for a project's code, files, and complete version history, hosted on GitHub's platform built on Git. It allows developers to track changes over time, collaborate with others, manage issues, and maintain multiple branches of development. Repositories can be public (open-source) or private, and are the basic organizational unit for nearly all software projects on GitHub.

Related skills: [GitLab](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/gitlab), [Bitbucket](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/bitbucket), [GitHub Fork](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/github-fork)

## Open roles requiring GitHub Repository (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.