Best Version Control tool for new Developers
October 13, 2025

Best Version Control tool for new Developers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GitLab

As a budding software developer, I am part of many teams to learn different software flows and delivery parameters. I came across GitLab through one of my colleague, who works with C# plugins and was facing issues with standardizing delivery parameters for executables. He was able to integrate CI/CD pipelines very conveniently using GitLab.

Pros

  • Security on branches and version control
  • AI tools for code review
  • Provides multiple ways to implement CI/CD

Cons

  • Features are similar in ultimate and premium tier
  • Support tickets take longer to resolve
  • UI gets freeze
  • Developer friendly tool
  • Helps with efficient issue tracking
  • Good with large code bases
GitLab is widely used throughout the developer community and provides all the required features industry wide. Many of the paid features help the team a lot to achieve efficient source code management. Many features like vulnerability management and AI chat while code review in IDE helps the developer to manage large teams as well.
The large code bases often contain multiple parameters and security hashes; these are advised not to be pushed to the branches. There are multiple checks provided in GitLab which helps identify these security leaks. It also provides resolution to avoid multiple security issues that might occur using AI tools. There is custom pipeline configuration which help in securing the deliverables.
For implementing CI/CD, all the subscriptions either be it free, premium or ultimate has support to CI/CD with paid features like custom configuration for pipelines and support with the AI tools, team is able to efficiently manage the delivery processes. GitLab-Duo helps in enhancing productivity for the development team.

Do you think GitLab delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with GitLab's feature set?

Yes

Did GitLab live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of GitLab go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GitLab again?

Yes

GitLab is best suited for new developers who want to learn scripting and automation using runners it helps in standardizing creation of executables. It also provides different ways for issue tracking and resolving merge conflicts. The code reviewer has a lot of options to provide his insights about the pull requests raised. The free tier has limited features as compared to some other software.

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