--- title: Git Reviews meta_title: 'Git Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 538 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Git works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 538 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # Git Reviews **Vendor:** Git **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 538 ## About Git Git is a fast, scalable, and distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Originally developed for the Linux kernel, Git has become the de facto standard for version control, utilized by millions of developers worldwide. Its distributed architecture allows each developer to have a complete history of the project, enabling robust collaboration and offline work capabilities. Key Features and Functionality: - Distributed Version Control: Every developer has a full copy of the repository, allowing for independent work and reducing reliance on a central server. - High Performance: Git is optimized for speed, efficiently handling large repositories with millions of files and commits. - Data Integrity: Every file and commit is checksummed and retrieved by its checksum, ensuring the integrity of the repository. - Branching and Merging: Git offers powerful branching and merging capabilities, facilitating parallel development and feature integration. - Staging Area: The staging area allows developers to prepare commits by selecting changes to include, providing greater control over the commit history. - Free and Open Source: Released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0, Git is free to use and modify, promoting collaboration and transparency. Primary Value and User Solutions: Git addresses the challenges of collaborative software development by providing a reliable and efficient system for tracking changes, coordinating work among multiple developers, and maintaining a comprehensive history of project evolution. Its distributed nature ensures that developers can work offline and merge changes seamlessly, reducing conflicts and enhancing productivity. By offering a robust set of tools for version control, Git empowers teams to manage their codebases effectively, leading to more stable and maintainable software projects. ## Git Reviews ### 1. Git and I don't get along **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew R. | Senior SRE, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Git?** Best: when I do the same exact thing twice in a row, there's at least a 50% chance the outcome will match. **What do you dislike about Git?** Literally everything. Obtuse and hostile syntax, "help" written for people who don't need help, too easy to get into a situation where the rational choice is to vote everything away and start from scratch. **What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for distributed multiuser code commits and merges. I guess it's more reliable than SVN. ### 2. Minutes to hop in, days to adapt, years to master **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrei D. | Software Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Git?** The crowd praises the beauty of Git internals, but it is not improving overall user experience, not at all; worse — horns and tails of mentioned internals actually stick from most unexpected places introducing complexity that could easily be avoided. **What do you dislike about Git?** Poor design decisions led to leaking abstractions: * Design decision: "do not record changes, just store snapshots of working copy". Following that leaves no way but to detect file copying/renaming (using their contents' hashes). It is fine until user doesn't copy/rename _and_ change file between snapshots (refactoring, atomic commits — that sort of thing). Which leaves no way to Git but to *guess* what was renamed/copied to where, which (guessing) is so easy to trick. * Design decision: "only referenced version graph heads are meaningful". Following it introduces so-called "detached HEAD" state and situations like "I've contributed changes on top of a tag and now they are gone". **Recommendations to others considering Git:** Consider Mercurial first. It covers absolute most use cases you'll need with plugins distributed with it (all you have to do is to enable them), yet, though, not supported by various 3rd-party services as much as Git is. If you chose to stick with Git, well, it's another story: * Get some good and verbose workflow that covers as much "something gone wrong" cases as possible. Atlassian got nice comparison for you — https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows * Get used to Git internals' terminology that sometimes sounds just like something you've familiar with but isn't in fact: e.g. "object", "tree", "blob". You'll need it when you'll face issues which you most certainly will. * Fastest way to get working recipe is google "git how to " **What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contributing changes to projects in Git repositories ## Git Discussions - [What is Git used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-git-used-for) - 4 comments, 1 upvote - [sdfsfdsfsfdsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsf](https://www.g2.com/discussions/sdfsfdsfsfdsfsfsfsfsfsfsfsf) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [what is the most channeling use of Git in your experience](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29849-what-is-the-most-channeling-use-of-git-in-your-experience) - 2 comments - [View Git pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-10+11%3A03%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cf209472-0f92-45d3-b838-65e250f66516&secure%5Btoken%5D=a0a802c1cf5b793cc88ebe6f628749665c257b36e12e920f3e0187d77a53f540&format=llm_user) ## Git Integrations - 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