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Git is a widely used version control system that offers a range of use cases for different teams and organizations. Engineering and …
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Git it today

10 out of 10
January 20, 2020
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Git is a widely used version control system that offers a range of use cases for different teams and organizations. Engineering and dev-ops teams rely on Git to handle version control of codebases, allowing them to create branches for features and bug fixes. By using Git, they can easily merge and release code to different environments, ensuring smooth software development processes.

Freelance software developers also find value in Git as it enables them to work on multiple machines and platforms, providing flexibility and backup of source code. They appreciate the ability to easily manage and track changes in their codebase, ensuring effective collaboration with clients and the ability to revert back if needed.

Organizations benefit from Git's ability to store source code across multiple repositories and branches. They typically have a mainline development branch for code review and automated builds, allowing for efficient management of projects. Git addresses the problem of multiple people updating a codebase by managing merging of changes, storing committed changes in a log for review, and offering rollback options when necessary.

Furthermore, Git fosters collaboration and code contribution among developers by preventing conflicts and facilitating efficient software development. It is successfully utilized by various departments like Tech Writing and Implementation, helping streamline release cycles and integrating smoothly with other tools like Bitbucket for pull requests.

Additionally, Git is an essential tool for managing app development processes. Its usage ensures faster release of changes while minimizing negative impacts on existing functionalities. Many companies rely on Git to manage massive codebases and enable cross-team code review, making it a reliable solution for tracking project progress and ensuring software security vulnerabilities are addressed.

Overall, Git's ease of use and cleaner approach to version control have received praise from users. It is widely recognized as stable and reliable for managing code, providing a centralized area for sharing and collaborating on projects across different teams.

In summary, whether it's handling version control, managing projects for customers, tracking changes in websites or internal scripting projects, or enabling concurrent work, Git proves to be a valuable and versatile tool for developers, freelancers, and organizations alike.

Users commonly recommend learning Git thoroughly to utilize its benefits for code repository management, version control, and team collaboration. They emphasize the importance of utilizing the command line interface and following established processes for branching and merging. Users also encourage exploring advanced features, seeking support from online resources like Stackoverflow, and considering other alternatives if needed. Overall, users consider Git to be an essential tool with excellent features and community support in the software development realm.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We migrated from svn to Git and the transition was smooth. We have tools that migrate the complete history along with the authors of the various files and the history from svn to Git. The migration was seamless and easy. We can see complete history of check-in as if we were using git since the beginning.
January 23, 2020

Git is the VCS King

Josh Stapp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Git is far superior at merging than SVN and I think every other VCS from what I've heard. It's also by far the most common so using it is a no brainer. Since it's written by the one true king Linus himself there can be no question to its design and architecture.
January 20, 2020

Git it today

Ray Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The only other VCS tool I've used in production is SVN. In my option Git is a better option for several reasons. Reason one is simplicity, actions like reviewing changes, committing or stashing changes, and managing multiple feature branches is much easier with Git. The second reason I favor Git is the distributed model Git is built around. I can create and finish my own feature branches without needing someone else to manage the central repository for me. Lastly, Git is lightning fast and works cross platform.
Nate Dillon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The two main alternatives to Git that I know about are Mercurial and Subversion. I've never used either one, but I know a bit about Subversion. From what I remember, Subversion requires a server. I don't anyone using any other source control other than Git, it seems to have pretty much taken over as the primary source control software.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Git is more advanced and easier to use. It has a very simple UI and a very efficient command-line tool. Git gives you flexibility and performance for the price, and has greatly increased the complexity of workflow. The overall performance is good. It caches information locally and can access remote servers when needed. You can easily move files from your local repo to Git.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
What I know is Perforce and CVS, such other repos tend to store deltas while Git stores the snapshots of the stuff as their commit ID's. This is what makes Git much much faster when you are developing on huge repos, since the checkouts are just instantaneous.
November 05, 2019

Git - An Absolute Must

Balázs Kiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are not many surviving alternatives for Git (maybe SVN) which in itself is quite meaningful. Git is the best versioning system of all time for programming, period. The difference between a good mathematical tool and sending .zip-s around emailing lists or FTP drives is so high that it's a game-changer.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GIT being a widely used tool have better reliability than its peers and have stands out when we compare it on operational performance criteria.
GIT with speedy and extensive branching capabilities have helped developers to use check in their code quickly and space efficient way.
GIT have the facility to quickly fetch the complete repository on to your local system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's easy to use and stable. These are the two strengths I see in Git. It does not need a lot of time to learn, but you still need to learn it. It has high stability. Bugs are not often to see in Git, and the community support is wonderful. With the help of GitHub, you can solve any problem.
February 12, 2019

Git things done

Cristian Bodnarasec | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Compared to SVN, Git has a decentralized approach which increases collaboration in the team by enabling the local stored branches. There is no need to be connected to the repository(via an internet link) to work and commit code. Besides the fact that the performance of Git is superior compared to SVN, it also has better support for merging and branches. A plus for SVN would be that it is easier to learn.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I do not have much experience with other version control tools. Git is highly used everywhere and it is hard to find a development team that isn't using it. One thing I know is that with Git each developer has their own copy of a repository so they could technically work offline whereas with other tools that is not the case.
Gabriel Samaroo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Git is the best Source Control Management Tool I've used. Every company, team, and project I've worked on professionally either used Git 100%, or was moving to Git, away from the alternatives like SVN. Git has all the features necessary, as well as a very large community of users and supporters.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Git is by far the best version control system out there. It's open source, free, and fast. No other version control system I've ever used has had all three features.
Jakub Wilk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Primarily we chose Mercurial, but our customers from abroad choose Git and recommended us to use it within a project that we are doing with them. Git for us is very easy way to contribute to these projects. But from the other side we see that more and more projects and programmers are using Git so maybe it will became our main repository soon.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For us, we use both Git and GitHub so they were a package. I suppose you could use Git with another VCS/hosting service to track changes if it fit well enough, but for us we just went with design out of the box. We pay for the GitHub private repository for the extra security.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used both Apache Subversion & Git over the years and have maintained my allegiance to Git. Git is not objectively better than Subversion. It's different. The key difference is that it is decentralized. With Subversion, you have a problem here: The SVN Repository may be in a location you can't reach (behind a VPN, intranet - etc), you cannot commit. If you want to make a copy of your code, you have to literally copy/paste it. With Git, you do not have this problem. Your local copy is a repository, and you can commit to it and get all benefits of source control. When you regain connectivity to the main repository, you can commit against it. Another thing for consideration is that Git tracks content rather than files. Branches are lightweight and merging is easy, and I mean really easy. It's distributed, basically every repository is a branch. It's much easier to develop concurrently and collaboratively than with Subversion, in my opinion. It also makes offline development possible. It doesn't impose any workflow, as seen on the above linked website, there are many workflows possible with Git. A Subversion-style workflow is easily mimicked.
June 15, 2018

GIT is a gift!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Branching and merging are easy: Branching is a walk in the park. It feels like a natural part of the workflow. They are cheap (fast and consume very little space) so that you can branch whenever you want. This means you can sandbox your features and ideas till they are ready for the mainstream.
Joshua Weaver | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Git is pretty much the main choice today when choosing a source control system. There are still others out there like Subversion and Mercurial, however I have not evaluated these as they are older than Git and I tend to try to stay on the leading edge of what is in use for the web.
David Petrie | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
After using Subversion previously for a number of years, Git comes across as the new and improved source control approach. Git seems very suited to working with Agile:- branches can be created easily, allowing multiple developers to switch to them quickly, and having local repositories makes working remotely (off the network) very handy! When compared to Subversion we tended to work on the trunk all the time - which could cause Jenkins builds to break, unwanted code on the trunk, etc - with Git we haven't seen this happening.
March 07, 2018

Git gets it.

Benjamin Hale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While my experience is limited on Microsoft Team Foundation Server, my understanding is that it works only for windows development work. This leaves out developers of alternative languages. Since git allows any code to be placed in it (you could even use it to back up plain text documents), this seems to be a good solution for most. Although, if you are using Microsoft development tools, Foundation server is probably the way to go.
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