Are viruses allowed on GitHub?

Any virus or malware can be uploaded to a repo on GitHub without repercussion . So whether GitHub is dangerous or not will depend on how you use it. Enormous software companies use GitHub without any negative consequences so in the right hands GitHub is safe to use.

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What is GitHub report?

You can report behavior and content that violates community guidelines and terms . Owners, collaborators, prior contributors, and people with write access can report issues, pull requests, and comments on issues, pull requests, and commits. Anyone can report apps in GitHub Marketplace.

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How do I generate stats on GitHub?

You can find the link to the left of the nav bar. You should have a look to repoXplorer, an open source project I develop . It is able to compute stats for a project (a group of git repositories) as well as for a contributor and a group of contributors. It provides a REST interface and a web UI.

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