GitHub has always been about "social coding". This is a quote on their homepage on May 2008 (three months after GitHub was founded):
> What’s amazing about Github is how it really brings the social aspect into play. Chris and Tom are showing us all visually how git development is supposed to work. I know I personally had some bing moments once I started pulling in commits from external git repos.
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