Git Reviews & Product Details

Git is fast and easy to use. On windows, I can easily log into my git server and clone the repository to my own hard drive. Do my work, edit as I please then seamlessly push it back to the repository and allow it to be updated. Git checks to make sure you pull before pushing, allowing for any user to avoid destroying a project with errors and conflicts.

Git also allows you to go back to any previous push by any user and look at and modify the files when they were in that state. This allows for rolling back updates if fatal flaws are found or if a feature needs to be removed for any other reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Windows lacks SSH keys and command line so Git programs must be installed and if using an outside server like github, some patience and time must be committed to setting up your PC to connect using Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git is a great tool to use for development. Makes collaboration between developers a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Merges can be troublesome sometimes. The automatic merge can be more intelligent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By far the most customizable and versatile version management system available. The feature set is massive and extremely useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The large file handling is very poor. Sometimes the system can be confusingly setup. More warnings before extreme actions would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve is not big, It is simple enough to get started and powerful enough for more advanced usage. I love the ease of branching, rebasing and merging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The submodules feature is pretty lacklustre, I wish it was easier/more reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to learn and full of command linedd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes hard to understand some commands Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multi options to control large get of people doing work, via branching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not easy to use as a file tracker software, man ways to work with it, but not always easy read checkin to main repo details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite feature of git by far is its ability to manage multiple branches and merge them in when they are complete. Also, 'git status' is beautiful in its simplicity and ease to generally know exactly what you've done. With 'git status' I can quickly determine whether all of my changes are staged and make sure that nothing I didn't want done got added to my commit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The command line tools are SO powerful that I often find it difficult to know exactly how to accomplish certain tasks. Specifically when trying to revert a bad commit, do I use 'revert' or 'reset' ? Actually what is the difference between 'reset' and 'revert' ? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git provides amazing SCM features such as rollback, merge and commit history. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps its massive amount of command, which is kind of hard for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git's branching model is the best of the version control systems-- lightweight branches that can be switched and merged at will. It's also very fast and diskspace-light because of the way it stores only incremental changes for each commit. It's easy to move along the commits in your branch if you need to return to an earlier point in history, for example to create a new hotfix branch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's evident that git has grown organically-- there are lots of warts. There's little consistency between commands, errors can be cryptic, and the documentation isn't great. Using a git client like SourceTree or Tower abstracts a lot of the pain away, though. For the most powerful commands you'll still need to get comfortable with the client.

It can be easy for new users to think that they've lost commits during certain operations like rebasing. We've had to train people not to freak out and start resetting their branches if merges go wrong-- git still has your commits, they're just detached from the tree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git alone is incredibly simple to set up in no time at all. All you have to do is install it, open up a command prompt, make a new folder, and type "git init" to create a repository. Committing requires that you specify a name and e-mail address to identify with, and with that, you'll already have a repository that's ready to go. Forming, closing, and merging separate branches of development is a breeze.

While Git itself is a complete tool, it is also capable of interfacing with third party tools like P4Merge for handling diffs and merge conflicts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it is capable of storing and managing different versions of binary assets, the size of the repository will begin to grow at an alarming rate as more iterations or assets are stored. Other solutions such as git-fat, Dropbox, or sheer symlinks simply off-load the binary assets onto external storage services, such as Amazon AWS.

The flexibility and efficiency afforded by not having all actions checked against a server can also be a downfall: there is nothing stopping you from accidentally editing the same file as another user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.