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Department Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Good community support for open-source projects, but needs support for CICD
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is help offered by the community for open-source projects."
  • "The ticketing system is not working."

What is our primary use case?

Some of the people in my team use this solution for version control of personal projects.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is help offered by the community for open-source projects.

What needs improvement?

The ticketing system is not working.

This solution would be improved with the inclusion of support for CICD.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for approximately four years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution definitely feels stable. I've never had an issue with it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I've never had an issue with slowness or anything like that, so my assumption is that it's scalable.

We're using this solution for our personal projects, and there are approximately ten of us.

How are customer service and support?

I contacted technical support one time to open a ticket. However, I haven't needed to rely on it. Basically, I'm happy with technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We are currently using GitClub for company projects, and do not have plans to switch at this time.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There is no cost to use this solution.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have evaluated BitBucket in addition to GitClub and this solution.

What other advice do I have?

This is a good solution, but it really needs support for CICD.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Integrates well with third-party tools and is very user-friendly
Pros and Cons
  • "Has great integration with third-party tools."
  • "The onboarding process could be simplified."

What is our primary use case?

We use GitHub for the resource management of our central system. We are customers of GitHub and I'm a solution architect.

What is most valuable?

It's great that GitHub integrates easily with Jenkins. It's helpful for the DevOps as well, checking in and checking out, the solution incorporates well. It's easy to integrate with third parties as well as with other build management tools. It's a really user-friendly tool.

What needs improvement?

There are some minor areas of improvement that could be made, specifically the onboarding processing which I think could be simplified. It would be great if GitHub could integrate with AI and machine learning systems.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good. We're using it with Microsoft, Docker and Kubernetes, and whenever there's an increase in traffic, we're able to manage that. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously worked on GitLab but find GitHub has many more options and features, particularly in terms of project and SQL management. It was easy to migrate from GitLab to GitHub.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy and there are multiple ways to integrate GitHub Dash or to command prompt and that simplifies things. We migrated to pipeline to build and deploy the process. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Technical Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Great code sharing and capability to roll back to a previous version; enabled CICD pipeline
Pros and Cons
  • "The code sharing and updated history are valuable features."
  • "Could be more user friendly."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case of this solution is for collaboration, code sharing, and as a testing environment. We can put it into Docker and create images. I'm the technical lead in the company and we are customers of GitHub. 

How has it helped my organization?

GitHub has enabled the CICD pipeline. Without GitHub, we wouldn't be able to do that. 

What is most valuable?

The code sharing and updated history are valuable features, the capability to roll back to a previous version is very useful. We're also able to make a branch and a merge and it's easy to collaborate with our teams. We can hook up with Jira, with Wiki, and OpenAPI. We have access to all the features we require right now.

What needs improvement?

I'd like to GitHub become a more user friendly solution. There are some commands that if we want to reset it to a previous version or we try to roll back, we sometimes get a broken link in the history. Maybe there's something we can do to make the learning curve easier for the user. Perhaps by visualizing the operation instead of the command line.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is quite stable, we haven't had any crashes.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We don't require much scalability. There's the tech team and then we have around 100 developers, managers, some architectural cloud engineers, and a test engineer. They all use GitHub. We don't require maintenance but we have a cloud engineer who is mainly on AWS services. The only thing that I think they need to deal with is generating tokens for new users. We use the solution extensively.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have previously used SVN but I prefer GitHub, it seems to be more powerful than SVN. We have a centralized website and a better user interface. 

How was the initial setup?

There's no real setup required, we just installed it and hooked it up to our project, and we put it into the Docker file. Not much setup.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We pay an annual license fee.

What other advice do I have?

This is definitely the best solution I have tried so far. That said, I believe it has some space to improve. It's important to do some homework before implementation and I would suggest using the documentation posted on GitHub. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Real User
Top 20
Provides a lot of open source code which is great for training purposes
Pros and Cons
  • "There are no issues. It's simple, easy, and fully compatible from my perspective with Git."

    What is our primary use case?

    Our primary use case is as a software repository. I've also used it for projects with several developers and a team leader who worked on the source code and put it into the master repository. From there they started the existing CI/CD pipeline which deployed the microservices into the OpenStack. I'm an architect and design the solution, integrating it with the components. We are customers of GitHub.

    What is most valuable?

    This is a simple, easy-to-use solution that is fully compatible with Git. 
    It's also a good source for training because a lot of source code is open. It's a tool where anybody can share the source code.

    What needs improvement?

    I'd like to see a better search function. It can be difficult to find what you're looking for because there are mostly a lot of keywords. If the function were improved it might help in finding some open source code. 

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I've been using this solution for several years. 

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The solution is stable. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    This solution is scalable. 

    What other advice do I have?

    I use this solution and recommend it for the source review and also for the CI/CD pipeline.

    I rate this solution nine out of 10.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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