GIT 9 Months In
06 June 2012
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9 months ago I had never heard of, let alone use GIT for source code repository. My main exposure to SCM systems was through Microsoft SourceSafe 6 at work and SubVersion at Uni.
Then the company I work for decided that SourceSafe was dated, and something new was needed. Introducing GIT. Having various issues myself with SourceSafe, I welcomed the brave new world, though it would be a learning curve.
Now, having seen and used GIT for quite a few months using GIT extensions for Windows, I’ve found that this does everything I would have wanted source control to do.
With multiple release branches, and also multiple work in-progress branches in use, managing and merging my work between has turned out to be a doddle.
At first, the concept that I had my own local copy of a repository on my machine which I needed to keep in sync with a shared repository seemed a little odd, and often lead to some pretty nasty merge issues. Once I got the hang of using branches, and getting my pulls, commits and pushes in the right order, I truly was cooking on gas.
So, with thousands of changed lines of source code, and over 600 commits, I am happy to say that moving to GIT from SourceSafe 6 was a really good move!
Recently, I found a really nice feature using GIT and GIT extensions, the ability to retrieve a previously deleted branch, very helpful when stupid codist (that’s me!) Thought the branch was a dead stub branch, rather than something to merge in. Thankfully (with the advice of a co-worker) I was able to get back hours, if not days of work.
To round off, if you’re looking to change your source control, then it will be worth checking out GIT (http://git-scm.com/). Also, for a free (on something open source) repository hosting, GitHub is also worth a look (http://github.com).
