Use Git? GitHub? Share your experience.

[JeremyMarquis]

I am playing with GitHub as a possible replacement for our current SCC tool.

 

Do you guys use Git or GitHub?  What client app do you use?  Any recommendations?

 

I am specifically leaving the topic scope open, so feel free to praise/rant/headscratch.

[todd]

I've been using Mercurial and bitbucket.org, for the last couple of months. Command line hg and TortoiseHg both work fine. I do not use the built-in LV SCC. No Git experience. Have you seen the Git User Group on NI.com? https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/git-user-group?view=blog

[JeremyMarquis]

I've been using Mercurial and bitbucket.org, for the last couple of months. Command line hg and TortoiseHg both work fine. I do not use the built-in LV SCC. No Git experience. Have you seen the Git User Group on NI.com? https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/git-user-group?view=blog

Thanks for pointing me to that group.

I am hoping not to have to learn CLI scripting (and especially not company-wide), so I am really looking for a client with a great UI.

[basimon]

Have you heard of Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki)?

It's very powerful, much more intuitive than Git, comes with its own wiki and an ui.

Be sure to check it out, I'm using it for quite a bit now.

 

Regards

Simon

[Jordan Kuehn]

Not to detract, I don't have much knowledge about Git(hub), but HG + RhodeCode provides a nice interface and you have complete control over the server rather than trusting the 3rd party to host it for you.  Not that BitBucket isn't also nice.

[CRoebuck]

Jeremy,

 

What's your current SCC tool ? Are there specific issues that are forcing you to look to replacing it ?

 

I have used a combination of VSS and Subversion over the past 4 years however Jack Dunaway convinced me to take a look at GitHub during the CLA Summit in Austin and so far my experience has been all positive. 

 

I was looking for a hosted solution with a nice interface.