# Source Control APIs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/source-control/  
**Provider:** Software Development Life Cycle — https://apis.io/providers/software-development-life-cycle/  
**Base URL:** https://api.github.com  
**Documentation:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control

Source Control APIs is one of 6 APIs that [Software Development Life Cycle](https://apis.io/providers/software-development-life-cycle/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Source Control, Version Control, Git, and Repositories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

APIs for version control systems that manage code repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, and code reviews as part of the software development life cycle.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.github.com/en/rest
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-description/main/descriptions/api.github.com/api.github.com.json

## Other Software Development Life Cycle APIs (5)

- [Requirements Management APIs](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/requirements-management/)
- [Continuous Integration and Delivery APIs](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/ci-cd/)
- [Testing and Quality Assurance APIs](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/testing-automation/)
- [Project Management APIs](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/project-management/)
- [Release Management APIs](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/release-management/)

## Tags

Source Control, Version Control, Git, Repositories

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/software-development-life-cycle/source-control/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/software-development-life-cycle/.