Git: Branches are cheap, damn cheap
December 19, 2019

Git: Branches are cheap, damn cheap

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Git

It's widely used by our component owners to store all the libraries. The beauty about Git compared to others is that it stores snapshots instead of deltas, which makes it just much much faster and more reliable to store code within it. We have integrated Git with Gerrit which stores the whole organization's Git repos within it, thus making it more reliable and scalable.
  • Fast.
  • Robust.
  • This tool is just perfect.
  • Centralized storage.
  • Ease for developers to code.
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.
It's open source. Not valid in here.

Do you think Git delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Git's feature set?

Yes

Did Git live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Git go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Git again?

Yes

It is well suited for scenarios wherein you need to manage a lot of code and multiple developers are working on the same repository. The whole point of using Git is that you can create branches, develop the code on it, push it up and again keep on doing this. If you are not creating 10 branches a day you are not using GIT well.