What is Git?

Git is a free and open-source version control system. It is designed to manage source code and project management of small to large projects with speed and efficiency.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is the largest developer community in the world, which provides a unique environment for sharing valuable resources with the rest of the world. It also allows users to utilize and modify those resources.It is the web-based code-hosting platform for collaboration and version control of source code. Also, it is a free project management platform.

Why a marketing tech company needs GitHub?

In our case, we are using GitHub. There are lots of advantage of using GitHub.

Control system :

GitHub allows us to store resources in the cloud. This basically means that Git is a content tracker. So Git is mostly used to store code due to the other features it provides.

Version control system :

Git is an environment where you can upload your changes and download changes from others, enabling you to collaborate more easily with other developers. Also, it can automatically merge the changes, so two people can even work on different parts of the same file and later merge those changes without losing each other’s work! So the Version Control System helps in handling this by maintaining a history of what changes have happened. Also if we missed any feature in the updated file and we can revert back the file content.

Distributed version control system:

Git has a remote repository that is stored in a server and a local repository that is stored in the computer of each developer. This means that the code is not just stored in a central server, but the full copy of the code is present in all the developers computers. Git is a Distributed Version Control System since the code is present in every developer’s computer. It will allow all the developers of a project to see what changes the other one has made. It allows you to discuss issues in your code with other developers.

Track the changes in your repository across versions :

Every collaborator can view when who did the changes for what, and where is stored. Also, admin and collaborators will get notifications mail of changes of files in the working resource.

Our development process within Git

NectarSpot team implementing DevOps into Agile product development. DevOps is the practice of bringing agility to the process of development and operations. It’s an entirely new ideology that has swept IT organizations worldwide, boosting project life-cycles and in turn increasing profits.

Comparison with Git process and without Git process

All Dropbox, Google Drive, and other services offer some form of version control in their systems. There are times when this may be sufficient for your needs. However, there are a number of advantages to using a version control system like Git.

Language support: Git supports both text and programming languages. As research moves to include more digital techniques and tools it becomes increasingly important to have a way of managing and sharing both the ‘traditional’ outputs (journal articles, books, etc.) but also these newer outputs (code, datasets like images and videos, etc.)

How GitHub Helps?

Development team

• Branching feature for version control
• Distributed development
• Communication between collaborators
• Good community encourage other team members to fork their resources
• Faster production cycle

Business team

• Easy to manage team
• Easy to distribute works
• Admin or team lead can add setup rules for accessing, read or write operation for repository
• Easy to review work of the team

Client team

• Track the progress of the project
• In the future, if any feature missed they can revert back
• Easy to give feedback on production