Creating a GitHub or Bitbucket free account

You can choose what service to use, as GitHub and Bitbucket do the same thing: host public and private repositories of code for collaborative software development.

The functionality of both are similar and both use git as source control. We will see how to use GitHub, but the process for Bitbucket is very similar.

Tip

You can find more information about Bitbucket at this link: https://bitbucket.org/.

Creating a GitHub free account

Let's create a GitHub account:

  1. Go to https://github.com/join, fill in the form and click the Create an account button.
  2. Choose the Unlimited public repositories for free checkbox and click the Continue button.
  3. On the third step, you must answer three questions or choose to skip this ...

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