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You're mostly talking about the free git Software by Junio Hamano and Linus Torvalds [1] not the commercial GitHub [2] system, by GitHub Inc., right? [1] http:

• albertzeyer 16y ago
  Well, for one part. Whereby I was talking even more generally; any decentralized revision control system can do what I meant. But 'before GitHub' was a time where such decentralized systems where not really in wide use as they are today now (and GitHub has played an important role here). But another important part where I was indeed referring to GitHub: The portal allows easy forking on the site and you can easily make pull requests. That means you don't have to prepare a patch-queue or so which would require additional work. The project maintainer can actually easily look at your fork. The functionality GitHub provides makes it just simpler and more importantly also straight forward, i.e. you don't need to figure out first where to put your patch.