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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.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2017

"AWS SES review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Git?

Easy to use. No management on my part required. Easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Throttling happens. It's difficult to debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/13/2017

"Git is the best version control for this period"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Git?

I like many features of Git such as

- Revision, If you coding with the wrong code you can revision for fetch the previously code before you changed.

- Branch, You can manage your own branch for your development and it easy when you switching between your branch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Conflicting of code that the thing I don't like Git when it cannot automatic fixed by the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paige P.

Director, Web Development

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/28/2016

"Great way to Maintain software"

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

It's easy to use from the Command line or a UI. It has a slight learning curve especially when coming from SVN since it handles Branching and commits a bit differently. There's a few different ways to use Git which is a great feature but its important to find out which ways work best for your company and your environment. Working in separate branches is seamless and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Logs can get messy. Especially since Git uses merging by default instead of rebasing so there's a lot of "merge branchname etc" messages in the log. You can force rebasing with your pull requests etc. You need to come up with a method to work in git so everyone is on the same page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Git:

Look into best practices for committing branches to master to get rid of noise from your logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaboration and collisions during collaboration are some of the biggest problems developers face. If you share code via zip files or dropbox, you're doing it wrong and should look into git immediately. There's so many resources out there to help with other things needed to help teams run smoothly (such as github for visualizing changes and pull request reviews etc). It also helps working across multiple machines when working along and working in increments and allowing the ability to rollback easily when a change doesn't act as expected etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kayla B.

Salesforce Developer

Environmental Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/12/2016

"Get git!"

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

It's widely considered the standard for source control these days, so a number of handy gui tools to help visualize your git usage exist (e.g. GitKraken, SourceTree), making it easy to teach beginners about proper version control processes during the development life cycle. On the same token, more experienced users can easily access it from the command line making it faster and more efficient if so desired. It also has great free remote storage options that support it (e.g. Github and BitBucket). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

When not integrated with a gui tool, more complicated actions like settling merge conflicts that occur from re-basing (among other things) can be difficult to visualize and correctly fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Git:

If you've never used it before, get a GUI tool that integrates with Git to get a better grasp on what is occurring when you perform certain actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?

Version control is necessary for the success of any development team. Inevitably someone will over write another person's changes, or someone will push broken code to production and a roll back will be needed, or a bug fix will come up that's completely unrelated to the current project and somehow needs to get into production and included with the current changes so you don't risk the new project deployment overriding the fix once it's ready to be deployed. Version control solves all of these problems. It gives developers the ability to go "okay, this broke, what changed?". Without version control you don't know what changed or who changed it without having a number of backups and spending an exuberant amount of time tediously going through work line by line with a fine tooth comb to discover this information. Git helps you solve these issues 100x faster without a migraine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew G.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/12/2016

"Git is downright awesome."

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

I really love Git's distributed model (I have a copy of the repo, github has a copy of the repo -- my collaborators have a copy). It makes working with the code really easy. I love how git allows me to clean up my history before I push it to a remote repository. I love how I can visualize changes with third-party tools (e.g. git-x) before pushing and how I can understand the evolution of the code more cleanly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Git has a steep learning curve. If you're not up for putting in a little time to learn the different workflows that work well with git, then you're probably in for a lot of pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?

We write code. Having a version control system is critical and git allows me to work with the code in ways that other VCSs lack. Pair that with the abundance of third party tools (e.g. git-x, github) for working with `git` and it makes things like code-reviews so much easier than if I had to send patches around or if we were all working with a central repo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jake S.

Software Engineer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2016

"Best version control software out there"

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

Simple, easy, and fast. Tons of documentation and tutorials out there so it's easy to ramp up your team on how to use it. Plenty of UIs built on top of it too. Git is the dominant version control system at many companies so it is a valuable skill to have on your resume as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Disadvantages of Git are:

- A steep learning curve (although there are lots of resources for learning and making it easier to use)

- It can become slow when handling binary files - it's not the ideal software for collaborating on e.g. a Word document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Git:

Git is the best version control system I have used. It integrates nicely with IDEs and other development tools. It has an enormous community providing support and software for it. It goes hand in hand with Github, the most common way for sharing open source code on the Internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Git solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used Git for version control at many companies in the past. It makes collaborating on software easy. It allows thousands of engineers to contribute to the same codebase without overwriting one another's changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josh T.

Web Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/24/2017

"A tool that I can't live without"

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

It's great how easy it is to keep track of your changes, make working together as a team easy and easy to rollback changes and keep track of changes.

I also like how well supported it is across every service. Git is the standard VCS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Not much really. Some of the commands aren't always the most intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2016

"The core tool for every developer."

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

Version control is absolutely necessary for any code base and vital to any group project with more than 1 developer. Being able to manage code and handle merges is amazing when collaborating with other developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Onboarding people who do not understand Git is tough. What are best practices for what to commit, when to branch, etc. There needs to be a on boarding guide on how to handle these task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2017

"Git review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Git?

It is a very convenient way to use source control, better than any other systems I know Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

The ability to merge is not the best, I wish it was smarter at resolving the merges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cliff W.

Senior Software Engineer for Testing

Online Media

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/16/2017

"The bee's knees"

5/5

What do you like best about Git?

Desktop client is great for git beginners, documentation and training for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Git?

Navigating around different repos can be a pain. Sharing should be easier inside of a corp account. (note: it's not that hard, but it always takes me longer than I think it should.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.