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Git is severely awesome. It makes source control a joy rather than a chore. I use git on everything because it is so lightweight and easy to initialize for any kind of file. Changing a binary-only LEGO MINDSTORMS project with your LEGO League team? Put it in git, branch it, be able to travel in time and between different kids' work with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

People who haven't used git - I feel terrible for them! Can you imagine a world where source control is a hassle, or worse, where changes are (gasp!) lost? Git is such a valuable tool, I truly mourn for those who aren't using it. I've used a number of other source control tools (clearcase, svn, accurev, perforce) and they just pale in comparison to the usefulness and power of git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git is SOO powerful. I am a previous SVN user, so being able to have multiple local branches and push to the trunk is wonderful! I also like the ability to be able to stash changes, until I am ready to commit. Git is light weight, yet a very powerful version control system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really isn't much that I dislike, except for the fact that it takes a while to be a git power user. Anyone using git in their daily workflow should take the time to master the basic commands. I love git (coming from being a SVN user). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most all SCMs allow you to branch and merge, but what drew me to git was the ability to stash a set of changes without needing to commit them. Often times you find yourself in the middle of fixing one issue when a critical issue comes in and trumps your current work. Git stash allows you to move those changes off to the side so you can work from a clean branch. Once your critical issue is committed, you can restore your stashed changes and be on your way.

Git also allows you to commit specific hunks (or lines) of a file. There are times you want to break your changes up to several commits that may cross files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coming from a centralized VCS like CVS or SVN, there is a bit of a steep learning curve in understanding how git works. You also have to get used to the fact that it doesn't use sequential revision numbers for each commit. Instead, each commit has a unique sha1-hash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git is extensible and flexible. It works with modern development practices in mind. We can use different branches for different versions of sites and merge code into each of them from development and feature branches.

Conflict resolution is much better than in SVN or CVS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no real receive only version of a git repo so end place publishing has to be shell scripted pulls. When pushing from an automated source like Jenkins and using the git push methodology, there are fast forward issues. That makes this system of publishing very difficult.

A --receiveonly flag on git repo init that would create a repo that is designed to only take git push commands from a central CI or git server would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git is very fast and makes it very easy to recover from mistakes. You pretty much have to try to delete history in order to make that happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've heard from other friends that Git doesn't scale well - other than that I can't complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to sync my repositories and share my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not being able to store some of my projects privately without having to pay a fee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git allows our teams to work in a non-linear development environment and retain high efficiency across the board. Git comes with a great and strong branching support, which consumes the minimum space necessary provides more options you can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If there is one thing to name, it's git's weak support for binary files. Each binary file is stored separately and there is no (binary)diff to help with it. And there is always one coworker who commits that 13MB package :/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very easy to manager code, collaborate with people and is way to integrate with other softwares or system. And obviously one place for cloud storage of code. Easy!

Also, its easy to have open source and private projects depending on how you work. If you are into open source stuff, git is the best. Its very helpful to understand other's code, or how people are working on stuff in other places. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the aspects are too convoluted. Like merging code, reverting to older versions, tagging is not that robust and in big collaborated projects its hard to identify commits on single branches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the content management and easy process of managing the same code base with multiple users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how a lot of commands are actually a series of small commands. It is hard to know what git pull actually does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All about using branches is so much cooler, for the whole team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the complicated commands to follow like git rebase and other little things which I still screw up, I wish were more intuitive and we didn't have to refer the documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.