Whether you should migrate to git
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Git has become very popular due to its good performance and wide plugin support for IDEs. It allows full access to the project history even without an internet connection. Many large companies have migrated to Git due to its open source nature and the popularity of GitHub. While distributed version control has advantages, a centralized server approach may be better for some situations. Migrating to a new version control system requires considering pre-migration and post-migration challenges.
Whether you should migrate to git
- 1. Whether you should migrate to GIT? - part1 Hype in market There are lots of questions in mind whether we should migrate our source code or not. Lots of hype in case of git is because many industries are now moving towards git may be because of the performance of Git design is remarkably good among all DVCS tools or Linus Torvalds being the sole reason for its popularity or ability to move work quickly between servers without losing history. Git is having wide variety of plug-ins for IDEs also. It also comes equipped with a wide variety of tools to help users navigate the history system. Each occurrence of the source contains the complete history tree, which can be useful when developing without an internet connection. GIT popularity got good hike because of some killer app/service like github, and some very popular projects decided to use it, which gave it a lot of visibility and grabbed a lot of attention. Git nowadays is very much popular but its recommended to not migrate tools so frequently and you should always keep in mind about pre-migration, post migration challenges. We have to look at all factor which are effecting migration. Distributed revision control uses a peer-to-peer model rather than using a centralized server to store code updates. While a peer-to-peer model would work better for world-wide, open source projects, it may not be ideal in other situations. The downside to a dedicated server approach is that when the server is down, no clients are able to access the code. Pros: Great for those who hate CVCS Dramatic increase in operation speed Full history tree available offline Distributed, peer-to-peer model Cheap branch operations Attracting lot to non-technical due its open source features (Git is GPLv2) Cons: Learning curve for those used to SVN Not optimal for single developers Companies who have migrated Many of today’s new enterprise technologies are centered around free, “open-source” technology. As a result, many big companies — from financial giants to retailers to services firms prefer open source platforms. With the introduction of GitHub many companies have migrated their code base to GIT.
- 2. The most popular open-source project serves as a “version-control system” for tracking changes and coordinating work between software developers. There are some very well-known names on the list below. AWS Reddit twitter paypal linkedin Gnome adobe huspot mozilla dropbox Terminology Here’s the git terminology: master - the repository’s main branch. Depending on the work flow it is the one people work on or the one where the integration happens clone - copies an existing git repository, normally from some remote location to your local environment. commit - posting files to the repository (the local one); in other VCS it is often referred to as “checkin” fetch or pull - is like “update” or “get latest” in other VCS. The variance between fetch and pull is that pull combines both, fetching the latest code from a remote repo as well as performs the merging. push - is used to submit the code to a remote repository remote - these are “remote” locations of your repository, normally on some central server. SHA - every commit or node in the Git tree is known by a unique SHA key. You can use them in various commands in order to manipulate a specific node. head - is a reference to the node to which our working space of the repository currently points. branch - is just like in other VCS with the difference that a branch in Git is actually nothing more special than a particular label on a given node. It is not a physical copy of the files as in other popular VCS.