[dba-Tech] GIT software. Competition for Visual SourceSafe

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Oct 31 12:25:03 CDT 2009


Here is a little software package which the author of this article claims is
superior to Visual SourceSafe. I have used neither package extensively
(actually only VS in its infancy) as Subversions seems to be enough for me. 

My development teams have never been more than 3 and generally only one so
even subversion is little more than an archive and backup application which
is just fine.

According to this article, as stated, GIT is superior to VS. GIT seems very
feature laden and it looks like it could be very useful and a product worthy
of investigation.

http://www.lexparse.com/2009/10/30/git-and-microsoft-development-a-success-s
tory

If you check out the article and review the comments they are very
interesting. The product is very powerful and used by many developers; I.E.
the Linux Kernel, Perl, Gnome, Ruby on Rails, Android, Wine, Debian
etc...and it is a Linux based Open Source application.

A link to GIT: http://git-scm.com and a list of its contributors:
http://git-scm.com/about

Jim  




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