GitHub Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.1 out of 10

Score

9.1 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for GitHub are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Intuitive User Interface: Many users have found GitHub's user interface intuitive and easy to navigate, making it simple for them to explore repositories without the need to clone them. They appreciate how it simplifies the process of navigating through repositories, providing a user-friendly experience.

Fast Data Processing: Several reviewers have appreciated GitHub's speed in updating, packaging, and compressing data. This fast data processing allows for quick merges and highlights code changes efficiently, enabling developers to work with agility.

Robust Version Control: Users highly value GitHub's version control functionality as it provides a historical timeline of code improvements and the ability to revert back to older versions. This feature has been praised by many for its reliability and usefulness in maintaining code integrity throughout development projects.

Reviews

131 Reviews

GitHub: Version Control for the Masses

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently utilize GitHub as the default code repository host for clients who either don't have a current version control system or for internal projects that need hosting. It's primarily used across our whole delivery team, while projects from other departments may be hosted there as well.

Pros

Github integrates really well with 3rd party systems, especially those used for continuous integration.
Github provides a number of built-in tools to support the project management process.
Github is ubiquitous in the sense that it's rare to find a platform or organization that hasn't used it, making it much easier for onboarding.

Cons

Some of the extended features, like "Projects", can be a little too lightweight and users may spend too much time setting it up and not end up using it.
The process for accepting invitations is kind of odd and doesn't always provide direct instructions to end-users.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe because GitHub has become so ubiquitous, there aren't many technical or code-based projects it isn't suited for. Even for repositories that are strictly for documentation, it serves well as for revision controlled documents. There can be some limitations through the integration APIs that other platforms like GitLab may be able to fill better.

Kyle Taylor

Solutions Architect in Professional Services at FFW (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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Keep Your Code in the Cloud Without Sky-High Pricing

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our department uses GitHub as its dedicated private repository for our production-facing web applications. In general, GitHub is popular across our organization (a public university), especially for students. GitHub gives us a high-quality, secure, cloud-based Git repository system at no cost, allowing our team to safely store application code, and to pull updates to our test and production environments, with minimal effort.

Pros

GitHub is a great, free or low-cost cloud-based Git repository system for smaller teams; it's easy to add members and collaborators to one or more repositories, as well as to modify user roles and rights.
GitHub provides a handy and highly transparent front end on top of the renowned Git system. Visibility into developer productivity, including code commits, is well-represented in GitHub's dashboards.
GitHub provides extremely detailed and focused user support documentation online, allowing every team member to build their Git skills incrementally while ensuring that most basic issues are handled quickly via end-user self-service.

Cons

GitHub packs a lot of functionality into its website; sometimes it can be difficult to navigate to the correct sub-page; the various drop-down selection boxes and sidebar menus can be confusing to users, especially ones with lightweight experience with the interface.
GitHub allows for substantial flexibility in user account management - Administering dedicated team members and collaborators across a large number of repositories can get tricky, especially if users have varying access rights or roles across various repositories.
Knowing the difference between user and organization accounts is key, there have been many times where I've wasted minutes looking at the wrong account trying to find a relevant setting or feature. For example, to view correct account billing information, one must be on the organization account, not the user account that has administrator rights for the organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is a great, free option for individuals, who can take advantage of unlimited public and private repositories. For team-based organizations, it's a reasonably low-priced, high-quality way to reap the benefits of a cloud-based repository system. Larger organizations with multiple teams may find hosting their own Git servers to be a more cost-effective option when compared to GitHub's Enterprise pricing plan, but said plan's support for cloud and self-hosting options allows enterprise users to have their cake (on-premises ownership of code repositories) and eat it, too (use of GitHub's sophisticated web-based front-end to Git).

Benjamin Plotkin

Technical Project Manager in Information Technology at California State University, Northridge (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Works Perfectly

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub provides us with access to open source software and small scripts of code that we can use instead of writing the code ourselves. Knowing that the code is critiqued and improved by other developers and generally follows best practices, this allows us to analyze it's suitability and compatibility quickly. GitHub provides logs of the changes to this software to assist in bug finding and allows us to contribute to the software if we require a change.

Pros

GUI for source control is great.
Storing source code efficiently with simple commands.
Searching for code is in a code base is easy and works well.

Cons

Atom takes too long to load.

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is great for storing code, finding other people's code, analyzing good coding practices, and stumbling across really bad coding practices.

James Hilton

Senior Web Developer in Engineering at LabRoots (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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Friendly UI with lots of features

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub is primarily for managing software source control, issue tracking, developer collaboration, CI/CD. We use it for source control, peer review, and server-side merge, CI/CD capabilities like automated test suite running for PRs and merges. We use a separate issue tracking system, but for many projects GitHub's built-in issue system is adequate, it has advantages like automatic issue references and linking of issues to commits, PRs. GitHub also offers wiki pages per project, team organization, and one of my favorites is its free static website hosting service called (GH-pages). Their static hosting is capable of consuming Jekyll (Ruby on Rails) based projects on the server-side. Open-source repositories and organizations are free of charge with a 1GB limit per repo. A limited number of private repositories for individuals (not organizations) are also free. GitHub can perform security checks of the packages used by the project and even propose recommended fixes to those in the form of generated PRs. Speaking of automated PRs GitHub offers extremely easy few click solutions to contribute bugfix PRs to open source projects and other actions can be performed solely using the web front-end.

Pros

Free hosting of open source projects and a limited number of private repositories as well for individuals.
Free website hosting of statically generated websites or Jekyll Ruby on Rails-based projects.
Issue tracking, pull request system.
CI/CD capabilities.
Enforcing rules like PR needs to be accepted for a merge and other team management and policy features.
Widely adopted, large user base.
Very friendly and easy to use UI, many tasks can be done through the web.

Cons

Organizations without a paid plan cannot have private repositories.
Free repositories have a size limit of 1GB.
Support could be slow to respond.
Migrating repositories to other services can be hard.

Likelihood to Recommend

Although support could be slow to respond that's not always the case. I'd also not decrease my rating because they don't offer free private repositories for organizations. They need to generate some profit from somewhere, and their site is very reliable and easy to use. I'm also not concerned that GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. There are extremely viable alternatives though.

Csaba Toth

Director of Product Engineering in Engineering at SportsBoard Mobile Player Assessment Solutions (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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One stop tool for all Coding tactics!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub is the most used tool in my team. I have been using this for a long time. I am really excited about committing updates to open source community and getting green commit dots on my profile as these green dots reflect your active time on GitHub. Every new update in our program, we commit to GitHub.

Pros

Multi-platform support, Linux, Windows and Mac.
Growth to Open Source Community.
Recruiters can check the GitHub profile than reading the complete CV. Even I prefer to share my GitHub ID than complete resume. As GitHub is your new CV.
Best way to showcase your talent to open source development.

Cons

GitHub requires attention over an android app. There are numerous third-party applications but not an official application.
GitHub requires more improvement to make it industry ready app.
One cannot use only github in their company for real time and live databses and applications.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for:

- Small level projects are well to design and easy to manage

- Faster integration with 3rd party applications

- Job applications and outsourcing skill sets

- Showcasing your development

- Now support private repositories too.

Sanyam Jain

RPA Consultant in Information Technology at Self employed (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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GitHub - A ultimate tool for code version control and collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub is the Version Control system used across the company by all the departments. It is hosted well within the company data center and every employee has a user created in the centralised GitHub. There are many organizations created for different projects/departments as per the need. Users can have both public and private repos in their own user profile. Though the user makes a public repo, it is still accessible only to people within the company as it is hosted inside datacenter and not accessible to open public. It is the recommended SCM across the whole company.

Pros

Branches are links and trees instead of a replica.
GitHub gists are very good and helpful for storing and referring commands and scripts.
Github pages lets user/organizations have static websites without a need for hosting services.
The transparency and fine grain access control for Pull Requests, including constraints on reviews and mergers are too very good.
The wide range of GitHub APIs help Automation engineers to automate lot of work flows, especially WebHooks.

Cons

Pricing. There are other tools like GitLab which have similar features and are free.
File size restrictions. File size cannot be greater than 100 MB.
The Project Management section of github is not very great.

Likelihood to Recommend

From the developers view, it is a very good tool to track issues and write code accordingly. The lightweight branches help in the workflow a lot. Developers of a project can decide on one of the branching strategies and work well in collaborating without the worry of code and file integrity. Can have peer reviews with the fellow collaborators for better quality of code. It is well suited for projects with collaborators as less as 1 to quite big teams of 100s of collaborators.

From the Automation team perspective, Github has many APIs and third party integrations which help in automating the workflows like CICD. Teams can write apps on top of GitHub APIs to do more analytics on the developer productivity and much more.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Popular implementation of Git that gets the job done

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Github Enterprise across our entire IT organization for hosting our project repositories. It solves the problem of source control for enterprise applications and it does that really well. It also has solid API's and its very well integrated with other Continuous Integration tools, that makes its customization quite easy.

Pros

Easy and intuitive UI. This is a big plus for anyone wanting to just explore the repository without cloning it.
Solid security model for repositories. You can provide Dev access or limited access to the repositories that enable collaboration across the org.
Robust Pull Requests (PR) model. We use PR to do code reviews and the PR feature set is easy and intuitive. You can request PR's for other dev's, they can write comments at a specific line of code and you can reply back to that comment using their UI. All of this enables healthy communication on code.
Endless customizations. Github is wildly popular, so it has solid integrations with other developer tools. You can also add webhooks to trigger deployments when a new branch has been merged into Master. This allows for a seamless continuous integration pipeline.
Robust API documentation. The older version of Github offers easy REST interface and their newer API implementation uses GraphQL, which is robust and allows Dev's to build their own tools on top of Github
Branch Protections. You can protect a specific branch on your repo and restrict who can directly commit/delete that branch. This prevents unintended code base deletions .
Project tracking using Github. Github also provides tracking using its interface. You can create development tasks, assign them and track the left over work using the Github interface. Which makes it a one stop shop for everything.

Cons

The Pull Request screen would hide the previous comments when a new commit has been made. This could be a bit confusing tracking all the comments on a PR.
The network tracking branch could also use some improvement. It's hard to track all the open branches and where they all merge on the repo. The screen could use some improvement.
It does not provide integrated CI tool. There are competitors of Github that provide integrated deployment tool and Github could use that improvement.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited if you want a no-nonsense version control for your organization. GitHub is quite popular and you have tons of solid integrations that would simplify your continuous integration pipeline. The open source git tracking allows you to work while you are offline, so you don't even need to be online all the time to make the commits. However, GitHub is a bit expensive compared to Gitlab or other alternatives. So, if cost is a concern, I would look elsewhere.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

GitHub is the defacto standard and it deserves to be.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub is the core of our engineering department. It allows us to version control our software and collaborate remotely. It also allows use to review code efficiently and provide the best software for our clients.

Pros

Pull Requests
Versioning
Issue Tracking
Planning
Collaboration

Cons

Code Navigation
Mobile
Notification Controls

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is best for any hosted solution. It allows for collaboration or even storage of personal code. It also has a bunch of integration like Circle Co.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

GitHub - Versioning Control

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

After cloud migration, GitHub becomes obvious for use, especially its automation. The whole organization is using the GitHub as a hub. It works like a Repository where Developers, DBA, and QA keep their artifacts; and make them visible or accessible to the team. It works as a shareable location for the team. It works as the shareable location for all automate jobs. GitHub is a great Hub.

Pros

GitHub is a place where we can keep the artifacts such as source code, lookup data, and other callable information. GitHub can be integrated with deployment tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity and any cloud DevOps tools. These tools can call/read the code or data from GitHub which works as a hub or repository.
GitHub works as version control. Meaning, when you upload the code script with multiple changes, the GitHub stores old copies as versions. If you want to restore back to the point-in-time code script, GitHub provides you to restore it. So GitHub gives security over your code.
GitHub provides public and private access. Public is free. Private charges. For proof of concept projects, development or testing, we can use PUBLIC access which is cheap or free.

Cons

GitHub is great tool. when you want to push a code change or small update, you would need to required to pull the entire GitHub repository unto your PC. This need to mitigate.

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is the best at keeping the artifacts which are called through automated scripts.

Jacob Biguvu

Cloud Engineer/DBA in Information Technology at CarMax (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Amazing Tool for not just developers but for PMO too

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 1, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our org, GitHub is not just used by developers but also by PMO teams to version control the documents which has a fabulous controlling which helps in maintaining the content of the files.

As per its flagship functionality of forking which is duplicating a vault starting with one client's record then onto the next - this empowers us to take an undertaking where we don't have compose access and change it under our own record. In the event that we make changes we'd like to share, we can send a warning called a "pull demand" to the first proprietor.

Pros

Fork
Pull Request
Merge

Cons

Only for premium users to use
File size limitations
Private repositories for free accounts

Likelihood to Recommend

Git enables clients to share codes, content sections, or any data with different engineers. It very well may be utilized for content trade, Ggits functions andGit vaults. In this way you can simply bifurcate them and update their forms. So on the off chance you use it in an open source code site, it can very well be a genuine option. Defect tracking in GitHub coordinates this component to disentangle search and bug fixing. To comprehend what ought to be done, a designer just opens the dashboard of each venture and channels the data. Questions can likewise be arranged by their ubiquity, update time, etc.

Ashish Balure

Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Deloitte (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Popular implementation of Git that gets the job done

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Easy and intuitive UI. This is a big plus for anyone wanting to just explore the repository without cloning it.
Solid security model for repositories. You can provide Dev access or limited access to the repositories that enable collaboration across the org.
Robust Pull Requests (PR) model. We use PR to do code reviews and the PR feature set is easy and intuitive. You can request PR's for other dev's, they can write comments at a specific line of code and you can reply back to that comment using their UI. All of this enables healthy communication on code.
Endless customizations. Github is wildly popular, so it has solid integrations with other developer tools. You can also add webhooks to trigger deployments when a new branch has been merged into Master. This allows for a seamless continuous integration pipeline.
Robust API documentation. The older version of Github offers easy REST interface and their newer API implementation uses GraphQL, which is robust and allows Dev's to build their own tools on top of Github
Branch Protections. You can protect a specific branch on your repo and restrict who can directly commit/delete that branch. This prevents unintended code base deletions .
Project tracking using Github. Github also provides tracking using its interface. You can create development tasks, assign them and track the left over work using the Github interface. Which makes it a one stop shop for everything.

Cons

The Pull Request screen would hide the previous comments when a new commit has been made. This could be a bit confusing tracking all the comments on a PR.
The network tracking branch could also use some improvement. It's hard to track all the open branches and where they all merge on the repo. The screen could use some improvement.
It does not provide integrated CI tool. There are competitors of Github that provide integrated deployment tool and Github could use that improvement.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience