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January 11, 2022
GitHub - A must have tool for developers
GitHub has been a boon to me and my company. We are focused on developement of softwares and web applications.It is a necessity in our company to manage the different versions of our products for efficient developement and deployment. GitHub has been helping a lot in this field. With the help of git version control system, we can easily switch between two versions of our product with a single click. Besides from version control, GitHub has been helping our company members to work in a team. A developers adds some feature in the product and then pushes it to GitHub. The pushed code is then pulled by another developer. In this way, we are able to develop quality codes with an ease in overall development tasks.
- Able to switch back to previous code if error occurs while running present code.
- Enables us to work in a team in an effective manner.
- Allows giving roles and access to specific people assigned.
- We can choose between private and public repository that enhances privacy.
- Deleting a folder is pretty hard in GitHub. It should be made as easy as deleting a file.
- It would be better if the code editing environment has more features like other IDEs.
January 06, 2022
GitHub is good for Students and Organizations
I am an aspiring Computer science engineer, We generally work with code and documentation stuff. Be it the coding assignment of the classes or away from the class we use GitHub from step 1. From organising the solution to writing the pseudocode of the solution and then finally writing the code. The Github software with its version control system helps us to keep the record of all changes made from the very beginning and also its work distribution system is too easy that we can divide it when we work in a team. Github is easily connectable from all ides and software and we can push our code too easily from our local system to it. Business problems the product addresses. Collaboration - Collaborate with colleagues on the same project. Branch protections- We can work on any particular branch of any part of the code or data, without making changes on others. Version Control System - This software records the data of all our versions and can be moved from any of them at any time without any delay.
- Version Controlling.
- Branch Managing.
- Stores Long Data or Code.
- Multiple users on same project.
- Security - Private repositories are not that good for high class data.
- Non-Beginner-friendly - Prior command-line experience is expected to get started with GitHub efficiently.
- File Uploading Restrictions.
December 20, 2021
Thanks to GitHub that lets us manage source code without hassle
GitHub helps my organization to host Source code repository without hassle. Dependa Bots and Integrations with third-party apps are great, A lot of options are available.GitHub package repository and Container Registry is also very useful. No doubt GitHub is an awesome source code management, also it offers to host repositories for free which is a great support to the open-source community and contributors.
- GitHub helps my organization to host Source code repository without hassle.
- Dependa Bots and Integrations with third-party apps are great, A lot of options are available.
- GitHub package repository and Container Registry is also very useful.
- Lack of rich CI/CD which is better by all means in GitLab.
- GitHub should focus on CI/CD they are very good at source code repository hosting.
- Dosen't provide [a] self managed offering. We can't download, install, and setup our own GitHub server if we want to use GitHub we can use Github.com only.
September 25, 2021
Developers love it
GitHub is used by different departments in our organization. GitHub is used as a version control platform and deployment of our source code.
- As a repository it's great. It houses almost all the open-source applications/code that anyone can fork and play with. A huge collection of sample codes available with problem statements across different domains make Github a one-stop location.
- I use GitHub with Windows and the Git Bash is superb. It [is] a powerful alternative to the Command Prompt and Powershell. Allows me to run shell scripts and UNIX commands inside the terminal [on] a Windows PC.
- GitHub integration with almost all cloud development/deployment platforms is amazing. Deploying a new application in Azure is really smooth. Just link the GitHub repositories and it's good to go. From automatic build to deployment everything is just amazing.
- Not an easy tool for beginners. Prior command-line experience is expected to get started with GitHub efficiently.
- Unlike other source control platforms GitHub is a little confusing. With no proper GUI tool its hard to understand the source code version/history.
- Working with larger files can be tricky. For file sizes above 100MB, GitHub expects the developer to use different commands (lfs).
- While using the web version of GitHub, it has some restrictions on the number of files that can be uploaded at once. Recommended action is to use the command-line utility to add and push files into the repository.
November 26, 2021
Gateway to the open-source community
Github is being used as a hub for shell or skeleton automation frameworks that cover various languages and tech stacks. These are leveraged for demos presented to prospective clients, or for turn-key starter frameworks for new or existing clients. It is also used by individual engineers who contribute open source solutions that may be used in different situations.
- Excellent user interface that allows for quick assessment.
- Seamless integration with local git configuration.
- Fosters involvement with the open-source community.
- Difficult to permanently remove unwanted files.
- Comments are sufficient to count for repository contributions, which is misleading.
- Notifications can be missed.
November 26, 2021
GitHub: A Great Tool for Programmers
We're using GitHub as any other organization does, actually, this product is very helpful and facilitates teamwork while working as a team. [When] the job is divided [between] multiple persons, each one can use his own branch and when everyone finish their work, we can merge all branches and get the final result. Also, to avoid any loss of codes, pushing them on GitHub is the best method. Besides, we can find different codes on Git[Hub] that can be used in any other work.
- Hosting multiple projects
- Having a good interface for continuous integration
- Facilitating teamwork using branches and merges
- Adding more space for data
- Previewing HTML documents
- Having a Jupyter app
August 03, 2021
The best code hosting and collaboration tool
GitHub is easy to integrate with other tools and it makes it easy to research and find what code changed and when with the pipeline. It is the most trusted place to store your project code and is also useful as a collaboration tool to get others involved in our work.
- GitHub has a powerful UI for creating pull requests
- It makes it easy to research and find what code changed and when.
- It is reliable and dependable. I've used it for four years without issue.
- I would like to be able to view commits by user.
- Conflict management could be improved.
- Navigating around a GitHub repo can be a little confusing until you're used to it.
May 13, 2021
Great code hosting and collaboration tool
We are currently using GitHub as a code hosting platform and a collaboration tool to get others involved in the work we do. For us it solves the problem of getting open source contributors to collaborate with us and using the GitHub actions we can easily deploy to different instances of our hosting platforms.
- GitHub actions easily help manage pipelines of the application and with these, you can do code health checks and deploy to any platform.
- Proper clean and simple project management via issues and boards.
- Analytics of one's contribution over a period of time.
- It has lots of widely popular open source projects.
- The project management could be a bit more robust by proving epics.
- Would be better to be able to merge organization and personal account contribution over the year.
- Actions marketplace could be better by automatically installing them in the specified repo.
May 12, 2021
GitHub is good VCS.
GitHub is VCS is vastly used by organizations so does us. All of our developers are using GitHub to store code on the cloud and it's easy to check everything on that. All the features are perfect to launch versions of any application. We can share our code to anyone else and can make public repo etc.
- Easy to use
- Distributed development
- Large community
- Open Source
- Continuous integration leads to problems
- Worst team experience at same project
- Nested commands
GitHub is used by some development teams across our large organization, including our small web team. It's used as a central code repository for storing our website code and allows multiple developers to work on separate branches simultaneously, then merge those changes into the main branch once their work is finished. It also keeps a history of changes so we can tell who changed things and when they were changed.
- Seamless integration with Git. Although you can use Git without using GitHub, the two have become almost synonymous.
- It provides a nice web-based UI for interacting with your central Git repository.
- Facilitates working with multiple branches, forks, and pull requests—all different aspects of having multiple people working on the same code simultaneously.
- Honestly, I'm having a hard time coming up with any cons or things I would change.
May 19, 2021
GitHub Review
Git is very good for agile planning and maintaining the code according to different versions. In our project we work on three release cycle in parallel so to have different branches and merging the code is a big task which GitHub has resolved. It makes EPIC planning more easy when there is less dependency on branches.
- GitHub is easy to use and handle i.e. not much training you need to be if implemented in project.
- Also merging capability and solving merge conflicts is easy in GitHub.
- GitHub is a costly tool so not every organization can afford the license of it.
- GitHub has security issues because it upload data on cloud which is venerable to attack.
January 10, 2021
Great service to manage your version control system
GitHub is used by many teams in our IT department and it solves our repository needs and collaboration across teams.
- Version control system GUI is great
- Open-source support
- Pull request reviews are easy
- Conflict resolution interface is helpful
- UI could be a bit easier to use, especially the tabs on the pull request page
February 11, 2020
GitHub is currently a top cloud based SCM
GitHub is used throughout the organization as cloud based SCM. To enhance and automate the SDLC process as much as possible, features such as branch protection, mandatory code reviews, and continuous integration checks are used whenever possible. As a cloud based SCM solution, it provides the security and redundancy needed in an SCM solution.
- Different offering for continuous integration providers
- New features (code owners, branch protection)
- Bring the social aspect of programming into focus
- Lack of command line configuration options (everything is GUI based)
- Downtime (not infrequent, no data loss, but still a pain)
- Improved security scanning (for keys in history to prevent merges, etc)
We use Github extensively for version control and team collaboration in all of our development/architecture projects. It's primarily used by our product team but we also use it to share information with the success team and collect feedback. Github assists us in the process of code reviews and is a powerful tool when managing/deploying multiple simultaneous projects.
- Version Control: GitHub, being built over Git, makes it fast and easy to develop projects in versions/branches and easily rollback to previous versions when necessary.
- Pull Requests/Review: GitHub has a powerful UI for creating pull requests, with useful tools like inline commenting and more recently "suggested changes". Pull request history is always maintained and easy to search.
- Collaboration/Auditing: It's easy for multiple team members to work on the same project and merge changes (often) seamlessly. All contributions are tracked so it's easy to identify contributors.
- Industry Standard: GitHub is used by virtually all major open source projects so it's very easy to find and contribute to projects of interest if you're well versed with GitHub.
- Reviewing large pull requests can be tedious and it can be tough to identify recent changes (e.g. a one line change) in new files or files with lots of changes.
- It should be a bit harder to push unresolved merge conflicts, we've had these slip through once in awhile.
- You have to be careful with merge operations; a bad merge can be painful to reverse.
February 01, 2020
Review of GItHub!
We use GitHub as a central source control repository for all client engagements. GitHub allows our global teams to collaborate in real time through its best-in-class tooling and simple to use interface. Github also serves as the main integration point with other pieces of software, including integration into continuous integration and continuous deployment services.
- Central repository for tens of thousands of open source projects, making it very simple to contribute to those projects
- Desktop and web clients are robust, simple to learn, and easy to use
- Reliability is solid and we never have to worry much about Github being available
- Github's status as an industry leader means it's often targeted by sophisticated attackers with DDOS attacks, which has kicked it offline a handful of times in the past few years
- Lacks first-party support for mobile (no app component)
- Uncertainty in how Microsoft will manage the company post-deal-close
October 15, 2019
GitHub is the standard for a remote GIT repository
We are using GitHub in our development team as our source control solution. GitHub allows us to easily work from either the office or remotely. Git's distributed version control makes branching incredibly easy, and GitHub provides the most seamless and easy to use Git solution I have found. GitHub provides a ton of integration options with any tool you are using.
- GitHub makes it easy to research and find what code changed and when.
- GitHub is easy to integrate with other tools.
- GitHub is reliable and dependable. I've used it for nine years without issue.
- When browsing history of a file, GitHub could make it easier to see the file after a particular commit instead of just being able to quickly view the commit. I'd like to be able to see the commit or the file itself in one click.
- I would like to be able to view commits by user.
- I would love to be able to traverse code on GitHub (go to definition, etc) - the good news here is that they are working on these features!
October 12, 2019
GitHub is Everything You Need for Version Control
The development department uses private GitHub organizations for version control of web applications and internal analytics programs. Only development uses it, the other departments do not create new code or interact with it so it's only been appropriate for us.
- Code difference comparison
- Private repositories that are stored outside the organization
- Code highlighting for ObjectScript
- Issues tracking is easy to attach to commit history
- Syntax highlighting for more obscure file types, like csp (Cache Server Page)
- Better handling or notification of deleted forked repos. If you delete the repo, the pull request will show up as "unknown repository" which creates odd dead ends
October 10, 2019
Solid and reliable code version control system that makes distributed collaboration easy.
GitHub is our primary code repository for the company's web app. It allows us to effectively collaborate as a team on our codebase, while providing an easy system to track and manage changes. GitHub essentially serves as the Google Docs for our code. Specifically, it allows multiple software engineers to work on the same code in a separate environment that protects the primary codebase and is only merged in when it's working as expected. This allows for all kinds of collaboration, including with remote workers all over the world.
- GitHub's ease of use is one of its biggest strengths. The site is structured around Git, a code version control system, which is used by developers around the world. GitHub's UI is minimal and allows you to focus on what's important, whether it be your branches, pull requests, or issues.
- GitHub's integrations and tools are fairly ubiquitous. You'll likely find an integration with GitHub on every development tool with integrations. This makes it easy to incorporate in whatever workflow you may have.
- GitHub is incredibly reliable. I don't remember the last time it was down for any significant period of time. This is essential for companies that rely on it for their daily operations.
- While GitHub's spartan UI gets the job done and doesn't distract, it has some room for improvement to make things even more intuitive, especially for newer users. There's a certain amount of learning curve that could be made less steep.
- There's so much you can do with Github that it's fairly common for a user to possibly only use a small fraction of what GitHub can do. Improving Github's discovery features would help surface some of the non-essential features that are quite useful.
January 06, 2020
The best source code management platform
We're using GitHub for our entire software workflow cycle including code versioning, code review and approval, team collaboration on the code, and release management. Now, with actions, we're also building our Docker images and deploying them live, so it's a full CI/CD pipeline for us, all in a single package that's used by the entire development team.
- Simple and intuitive.
- Broad set of features.
- Conflict management could be improved.
- Searching is good but not great.
October 16, 2019
I would highly recommend GitHub!
GitHub is being used by the information technology department to work concurrently on projects we are looking to implement in the coming months. It addressed the issue of having to work together and input code from various locations.
- The ability to access GitHub on multiple platform makes organizing files very easy.
- GitHub is intuitive enough to help new users immediately understand its platform and how to use it. It has instructions and help notes at every turn to help with this and the UI is user-friendly.
- The best aspect of GitHub in my opinion is its ability to track your activity and also shows you a working map of of your activity over time. This can help with planning and scheduling of one's work.
- I think GitHub should incorporate two-factor authentication to improve user account security.
- The Macbook GitHub application could be improved to be more intuitive.
October 15, 2019
There is no other Hub like this one!
Github is being used for version control and feature branches for our main website. The tech team is the only person with access to push or pull from the repository. Our industry is changing very rapidly, and so, the tech team is charged with adjusting our front-facing website hourly, and sometimes this causes conflicts when one of the team members is also doing a similar task. Thus, GitHub allows us all to stay in tune and be in perfect unison when it comes to deploying code out to the web.
- Version Control - You can see the progression of where you started to where you are today, and if need be, rewind to a certain time in the past and use that version if need be.
- Storage Space - There are really no limits to the amount of information you can keep in one place.
- Collaboration - Contributors can be one or can be many, and GitHub keeps track of each instance by the author.
- UI - Although there is a readme file that can be made to look pretty, over the UI is very dry.
- App or web app - If there we an easier way to integrate with GitHub versus the command line, I am sure the number of users would increase dramatically.
- Glossary of Actions - There is not one place to which one author could go to find an absolute glossary of what actions do and what those actions are. Very hard to decipher the amount of information available on the web.
October 13, 2019
The best hosted version control and software collaboration tool
Our design and development team uses GitHub. About 10 years ago we used to use SVN instead of Git and we tried some cloud services for hosted SVN repositories. At the time we felt that Git was more focused specifically on open source software projects, didn't have GUI clients for designers, and didn't have the project management-oriented features that we wanted. That has completely changed since then, and now Git and GitHub specifically is the perfect solution for our team. GitHub helps us build great software, and integrates with many services we use to help us be more effective with a distributed team.
- Integrations with services like Heroku that allow us to deploy staging environments from a pull request.
- Familiarity with other developers making it easy to add a collaborator to a project and have them make a productive impact on the project right away without learning new tools.
- It makes it easy to review and collaborate on open source projects and private ones.
- It has many GUI client options for those who are not as comfortable with the command line.
- Helpful reporting of contributor activity and built-in project management features like docs and comments.
- In some ways, the design of GitHub incentivizes the use of certain practices like using pull requests, which may not fit your organization's workflow (though I don't really see this to be an issue personally, and if your organization isn't using something like pull requests, then I would question why).
October 13, 2019
GitHub Review
GitHub currently isn't the main product we use for hosting our repositories. We primarily use Bitbucket currently and have plans to move to Azure DevOps whose repository hosting/management is re-skinned GitHub. My use of GitHub has primarily been working with open source libraries.
- I prefer the way GitHub presents/manages code reviews.
- Making changes and opening pull requests are incredibly easy in GitHub. When you have a small change you need to make it's incredibly annoying to have to pull then branch then commit then push then go back to the browser to open a PR.
- Built-in wiki, issue tracking and reporting, and other tools can be incredibly useful.
- Browsing through a repo is pretty primitive. Digging into a folder is a link to a new page. For medium to large repositories, it's extremely cumbersome. The way Azure DevOps manages this is incredible. It gives you a folder explorer as you'd find in VS Code. You can quickly browse through a complex repo and make in line changes and submit a pull request all from inside the browser.
- Navigating around a GitHub repo can be a little confusing until you're used to it.
October 12, 2019
GitHub has revolutionized the web development workplace
Git Hub is not used in any official capacity but there are numerous staff (developers), instructors and staff that use this industry-standard platform for sharing code and working collaboratively on websites and apps.
- Great for sharing code and collaborating with the coders around the world.
- Versioning: By installing Git on your local machine and taking a regular snapshot (called commits) you can restore your project to any previous point without having to keep multiple versions of your files.
- I consider GitHub to be social media for coders/developers if social media was actually useful. There are tons of free resources and the community is fantastic.
- With GitHub you can host a simple static website for FREE (which is better than AWS s3 buckets IMO)— this is a great alternative to vendors like GoDaddy or BlueHost, etc.
- The UI isn't super intuitive at first but help is easy to find.
October 12, 2019
The best choice for hosting code online
All our source code is hosted in private GitHub repos. All code reviews also go through GitHub and our deployment process goes through GitHub as well, pushing to the master branch triggers a GitHub webhook that deploys the code to production.
- Excellent integration with CI/CD tools: testing and deployment are easy via GitHub's ecosystem.
- Great code review tools.
- Easy to link to and share specific lines of code to communicate with engineers.
- Notifications are noisy by default and hard to configure to do what you want.
- No cross-repo issue tracking, hard to see all open pull requests at once.
- We pay per seat, which means sometimes we introduce extra friction because we can't give everyone access to our GitHub.