Looking to expand its already considerable user base, GitHub has introduced a new desktop GUI client that streamlines many of the functions of the online code repository.
The company is hoping that a GUI will attract those developers who are not as comfortable with the text-based interface used by GitHub’s current crop of users, said Amy Palamountain, GitHub senior software engineer.
The free GitHub Desktop software, available for both Macs and Windows machines, supports most of the advanced functions now handled by the command line.
GitHub is a popular site for hosting software code. It uses the open source Git version control system first developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds. It is now home to about 25 million software projects, making it the world’s largest online code repository, according to the San Francisco company.
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