1.0Blog | GitProtect.iohttps://gitprotect.io/blogMichal Zbylhttps://gitprotect.io/blog/author/michal-zbyl/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="pY0Yz8msmd"><a href="https://gitprotect.io/blog/github-repository-vs-project/">GitHub Repository vs. Project</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://gitprotect.io/blog/github-repository-vs-project/embed/#?secret=pY0Yz8msmd" width="600" height="338" title="“GitHub Repository vs. Project” — Blog | GitProtect.io" data-secret="pY0Yz8msmd" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://gitprotect.io/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/github-repositories-vs-projects.png1200600GitHub has been standing as a model of a software development platform for years. As the market leader in version control systems, it has 100M+ developers, and a significant number of Fortune 100 companies use the service. Moreover, the provider hosts over 420 million repositories. Exactly, but where are the projects in all of this, and what is the difference between a repository and a project? What do these differences arise from, and why is knowledge about them so necessary?