The only VCS you should consider
January 24, 2018
The only VCS you should consider
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with GitHub
It's only used by engineering, but basically everyone from Devs to Ops uses it across all of our applications. It's the most prolific VCS by far and for good reason. It works well, and helps you write good code while also promoting teamwork. It would be unimaginable to not have GitHub at our disposal. Things would be much more difficult, especially among remote developers!
- Branches are super useful, lots of ability to go back and forth between different revisions of the code
- Allows multiple developers to work on a single file
- It's somewhat intuitive and once you have the hang of it it becomes second nature
- There is a learning curve
- It's basically the VCS everyone uses, monopoly?
- History and audit log that comes with the code
- Allows people to contribute quickly and efficiently
- Allows team to constantly deliver value
- SVN
SVN is what everyone used to use. Now, no one uses it. I wonder why? GitHub is just way better and light years ahead. OK, well maybe that's exaggeration. More than anything SVN is just different but also works effectively. The thing is, everyone uses GitHub so why would you use SVN. GitHub is also better offline.