GitHub Reviews

Pros

Simple, easy to understand, good to go tool for any project you are working on. The repository are available on a public and private basis. People come together to collaborate to any project

Cons

There are merge conflicts happening sometimes, bit tedious at that point. Also the command line interface could have been better

Pros

Almost everything is free, user interface is very easy to use/understand.
I love the community support too, a lot of developers are giving some open source products on this website

Cons

Some basic features like the ability to create categories to organize repositories is missing. It is a very annoying problem and a lot of people asks to implement it since many years but GitHub does not say anything about it

Pros

Nothing. I couldn't figure out how to use it.

Cons

It was very confusing - once I logged in, I could go no further

Pros

As a web manager with two years of experience in Indonesia's hospitality and F&B industry, I primarily use WordPress that uses JavaScript and sometimes I made my own Python scripts. GitHub's version control has been a standout feature for me. It eliminates the need for multiple file versions and allows easy rollbacks when errors occur. The collaboration features are excellent, especially when working with team members across different Indonesian cities. Additionally, the vast GitHub community and its open-source projects have been invaluable resources, offering solutions that we can adapt to our local market.

Cons

The initial learning curve with Git terminology and workflows was challenging, particularly for team members more versed in hospitality than coding. Onboarding took longer than anticipated. While GitHub excels for managing code, it's less intuitive for non-code assets like restaurant menu designs or hotel brochures, which are crucial in our industry. Lastly, for simple WordPress theme tweaks, GitHub can sometimes feel overly complex.

Pros

The most I like about Github is Repository CRUD. I always use Github for my projects and create repository on Github and collaborate with my colleagues. It's really awesome. My working process is easy and fast due to Github.

Cons

The least I like about Github is Git merging. It was stuck something when I want to merge with my colleagues's branches like rebase. I can't push and pull at that time. I think it needs to fix it later.

Pros

The most I like about Github is version control. It is easy to manage and track changes over time. Moreover, I can invite my colleagues to access my repositories.

Cons

The least I like about Github is creating page in Github. It's not easy for me. I tried to create my page using Github page but it's not worked.

Pros

github really helps me in many ways in the world of coding, I can store my source code there easily. and in github there are many codings from developers that can be seen to be used as a reference in learning coding.

Cons

can share code with friends if needed or help our friends code without using the person's email so github is multi-functional

Pros

My favorite parts are the version control, good design, collaboration tools, community, and open source projects.

Cons

Some aspects of github are complex and have a learning curve to first get started. There are also limitations to git that are inherent to the platform.

Pros

Robust version control and collaborative features

Cons

The user interface might be complex and therefore requires some time to get familiar with it.

Pros

Github has a lot to offer. It's a great place not just for code storage, sharing and versioning, but entire projects can be stored and shared here. The biggest highlight for me is the data science project portfolio that I can create and display here.

Cons

GitHub learning curve can be pretty steep. At first things might not seem very intuitive. But with continued use one begins to appreciate and utilize this platform better.

Pros

Github is amazing. I used to utilize Bitbucket a lot but Github was more robust and before the free tier for both was kind of equal. Now Github free offers unlimited private and public repo's where bitbucket only offers like 5. Github also seems to be a lot faster when dealing with branches and commits. Like the connection feels snappier. I can say the same for the website. Now where Bitbucket, the website used to be fast but ever so since the re-design it's a little more on the heavy side. I honestly like Github and I've moved all my code there to be hosted, since it's super secure and super reliable. For as long as I have used it (around 4 years now) I haven't had issues with accessing or uploading my code changes.

Cons

Please, link issue tracking with branches so you can see the branches that you made or the commits that you made for specific issues. Bitbucket/JIRA has this and is a god send for project management

Also integrate it with the boards, for instance, a linked issue when closed, it can auto-merge the branch. JIRA/Bitbucket also has this.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams and Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

Honestly because of how good the free tier is now.

Pros

- high availability
- built-in code review, wiki, issue tracker, artifact hosting (private beta)
- great third-party tool integration
- automate everything
- uses git
- developer friendly company
- free for open source projects
- mature

Cons

- issue tracker could be more sophisticated
- new features could be developed more rapidly (although this has improved recently)
- native apps are not up-to-par with competitors, but luckily there are many free alternatives
- was bought by Microsoft, I personally would have liked to see them stay independent

Alternatives Considered

GitLab and Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

We've briefly tried out bitbucket and gitlab, but quickly returned to github for it's maturity and high availability. And it seems nowadays every developer is on github so collaboration on open source projects is very easy.

Pros

It's very easy to use and fast. Previously I was using another version control software which became very slow. GitHub is super fast and much easier to use. I love the project management feature and KanBan cards and also the fact that it integrates with lots of other tools.

Cons

I think finding personal info could be made easier, e.g. all your comments, comments in a certain timeframe, interactions and conversations. I am a programmer and don't mind manually adding in the flags for searching, but feel a much more intuitive interface could be created to make life easier.

Pros

GitHub has grown leap & bounds over the past few years. They have always offered really excellent tools for developers that is well built and very stable. More recently GitHub has put a lot of effort in creating a more intuitive user experience that makes it simpler to use for both beginners and experienced users. As a designer who isn’t the best with code and development but still knows how to setup and deploy code with GitHub there updates over recent years have been very helpful in day-to-day. Integrations & security settings are excellent as well.

Cons

Nothing much to say here. GitHub can be a bit overwhelming for a beginner but IMO they have been addressing this and making it much more comfortable to get started using. I’d like to see more of the same in other areas as well. Solving merge conflicts in GitHub was the only time I was ever frustrated with the tool.

Pros

There are some key features that makes GitHub a great tool for version control. In the first place all the process of having control over branches setting permissions and the vast options for configuration in the repository you have are great. It has one of the best pull request section, it allows for commenting more than one line which is great for making comments. As well GitHub have integrated great tools like the pipelines we can create to have continuos integration.

Cons

Some time for me GitHub has been built without an intuitive UI and checking even the smallest and easiest thing like a date you need to hover over another date to tell you the complete hour and time of a commit per say. So this kind of stuff makes GitHub sometimes difficult for new joiners of the software but as you get to use it more.

Alternatives Considered

GitLab and Bitbucket

Reasons for Choosing GitHub

GitHub is more widely used around the software development. It has made giant leaps to catch up to Atlassian integrations like creating tickets inside of github and stuff like that.

Switched From

Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

It provided the overall best experience and pricing.

Pros

I've been using GitHub for more than 10 years. It is the goto hosted Git service for my personal and enterprise SCM platform. It has pretty much everything you need for software development starting from source code management to issue tracking, project management, build tools (Actions) and online code editor. I also use GitHub CoPilot which is great productivity tool saving at least 30% of my development time every day.

Cons

There are no complains really! I love everything about GitHub.

Alternatives Considered

GitLab and Bitbucket

Reasons for Choosing GitHub

I find GitHub much better product, better offerings in terms of features and user experience.

Switched From

GitLab and Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

Better offerings, free plan is less limiting and better and faster UI.

Pros

It's very easy to integrate with other software that the company already use it. For example, we use Discord to communicate between coworkers, and thanks to the Github bot integrated in it, there's a message each time someone approved a Pull request or Closed an important Issue. Also, with his integrated CI/CD, we can now upload a new version of the app and even testing it, so the final user can have a very good experience without major flaws.

Cons

I wish that Github can have a better use to link Issues and Pull Requests, it's very interactive but there are time that I forget to link some Issue and it's a little frustrating to have some unlinked Issues after a sprint.

Alternatives Considered

GitLab and Bitbucket

Reasons for Choosing GitHub

We need it to integrate some CI/CD to increase the quality of our product, Bitbucket have the feature but it's complicate and also a little expensive compared to Github.

Switched From

Bitbucket

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

Because of the CI/CD and the project management option that we are currently using.

Pros

VCS and it's being free for all basic needs, from the smallest firms to IT behemoths, everyone uses GitHub.

Cons

the learning curve may seem steep if someone wants to do advance pull requests and forking.

Alternatives Considered

Bitbucket

Reasons for Choosing GitHub

I wanted to try CI/CD with a simple React project but I found out it's basically private GitHub without all the experience that the OG has, so simply moved back to Github.

Reasons for Switching to GitHub

GitHub is industry leader when it comes to handle Version Control System

Pros

My first interaction with GitHub has never been changed and made different following the impact it had on my project. The fact that I was leading a big team that needed to share and update file frequently, GitHub become a game changer and the source of success to us. When asked to use the software for any project any time, I would settle for this with confidence following the following facts

I went against the norm to compare the ability of the software and here are some of the reasons it remained on top for me.

-Very easy to get started use.
-Compatible with many other devices that are needed.
-Can be shared in a team simultaneously seamlessly.
-Organizes the work depending on the latest changes.
-Offers central view of the project leading to easy supervision.
-Requires simple device to host and integrates perfectly with the internet.
-Has a great collection library to edit your work.
-Offers pocket-friendly cost to all users.

Cons

Not all our needs were met with ease following the great expectation that we had. Here are some points to have in mind even after the great ability has been demonstrated.

-It works with predefined command.
-Requires strict monitoring as changes can be compromised to interfere with the meaning.
-Fast and stable internet is a must have for success.
-You need technical know-how to manipulate and make changes on the platform.

Pros

GitHub is home to the majority of the web's open source projects. It was one of the first version control services and it aged pretty well.
The service's website speed is probably one of the best around when it comes to repository hosting services and this is very important as through the website all the information about projects can be found.
There is a lot of searching and navigating to be done within projects so the speed is a big plus.

GitHub also has it's own website hosting service called GitHub Pages which allows people to make their own website. This is great if you are the project owner and would like to link additional information within a look that looks less than a wiki page.

GitHub comes with a very easy to use desktop application which is used to manage repositories, both from GitHub as well as the competition's services.

Being so popular it has a great deal of integrations into other services, the most important one for me perosnally being the Heroku and the Netlify one. Whatever is pushed to the GitHub repo gets built and sent to Heroku and Netlify. saving up valuable time. These integrations are sometimes available for the competition services too but the steps are much steeper.

Another thing that GitHub done right was the monthly progress on the main page showing how many changes were made by the user. This helped with giving people an incentive to keep working every day to have the calendar-like frame green at all times (gamification).

Cons

When I started using GitHub a long time ago (~6 years) the services was very limited if you were a free user. The collaborators were limited and the space was very tiny and on top of everything your projects were not private. This is great for open source developers but for me, I could not allow myself to put game projects up for grabs so I mostly used GitHub for small prototypes.
Late came the option for free users to have private repositories and after that Microsoft bought GitHub extending the limitations.

Unfortunately even with their newest addition to the space of a repository using Large File Storage (LFS), the competition offers more space and a more streamlined workflow for big projects. Also a lot of features are behind a paywall for GitHub while the competition gives them for free, at a cost of slower website speed however.

Pros

I have been using this great platform for 4 years and I am in love with it. I started using it in my bachelor's for hosting my projects and also collaboration with my colleagues on a group project. It's very useful to host code and share it with developers around the world and get feedback and help on the issues with the code. Also, it's a great place to find out many open source projects where you can contribute to and also use them on your personal or company projects. Also, it's great when it comes to working in a group, assigning tasks, creating issues, monitoring work progress, etc are great features. I also love the webhook feature to make automatic changes to the production/development environment so we get the latest code changes deployed. Also, creating, merging branches, etc can be done on the web. It's a great place to share your work and get feedback, contributions, and discussion on topics to make the code clean and more useful. Also, it has tons of tools in the marketplace which can be used for continuous integration, deployment, code review, etc to make the work easier. I love to star the projects so that I can view them later and I use it as a bookmarking feature. Also, forking is great to copy a repository with making changes on my own for my desired needs.

Cons

One issue that I am facing is the GUI bug where I search my one of my repository and open it and when I press the back button on the browser and when I try to search my another repository I am redirected automatically to my list of repositories instead of letting my search finish. Another con maybe it may be hard to use when starting using GitHub for the first time. Also, it doesn't let to perform the merge with the conflicting commits on its GUI and I have to use the command line commands.

Pros

Starting with versioning, ease of code management & collaboration, which is of utmost priority for any company that wants to develop code. GitHub provides it all.
They keep adding new features such as vulnerability scanning & integrations with IDE platforms like VScode. This makes GitHub even more reliable & convenient for coders.
Today, majority of coders will tell you to choose GitHub over any other platform given how much it has helped them & their company to develop code, continued with feature & bug management.

Cons

Merge conflict handling has improved since it was first implemented but there is still a lot of scope to make it easy for developers.
Code search is another feature I want GitHub to improve on, currently it does not allow to search for specific piece of logic inside a big repository until you take a pull & do it in your IDE

Pros

- I liked the version control system in GitHub, which allows for easy collaboration and tracking of changes made to the codebase.- I liked the integration with other tools and services, such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) systems, which allows for seamless integration of machine learning models into production environments.- I liked the community features such as finding and sharing code snippets and libraries, which can be incredibly useful for data scientists and machine learning engineers.- I found the software easy to use and navigate.- Integration with existing business processes was seamless.- The Access controls and Permissions feature was impactful as it allows for granular control over who can access and make changes to a project, which helps to ensure that only authorized users are able to make changes to the codebase.- The debugging feature was also impactful as it allows to see the history of changes and allows to revert back to previous versions if needed.- The task and project management features were also impactful as it allows developers to easily manage and track tasks and issues associated with a project, which can help to improve productivity and collaboration.

Cons

- One potential downside of GitHub is that it may have a steep learning curve for new users who are not familiar with version control systems.- Some users may find that the UI can be cluttered and overwhelming, making it difficult to find the specific features or options they need.- Some users may find that certain features or integrations are missing or could be improved, such as more advanced collaboration tools or better support for certain programming languages.- Some users may find that the cost of using GitHub's advanced features or integrations can be prohibitive for smaller or less well-funded projects.- There could be more customization options for the dashboard and reporting/project tracking feature.- For non-technical users, the interface may be challenging to understand.- The SSL security feature could be improved to provide better protection for private projects and data.- Some users may find that the bug tracking feature is not as robust as other issue tracking systems.

Pros

Version Control: GitHub provides Git-based version control to manage projects and track changes.Collaboration: GitHub allows multiple users to collaborate on a single project through pull requests, code reviews, and issue tracking.Project Management: GitHub provides a platform for managing projects through its built-in project boards and kanban boards.Code Hosting: GitHub provides unlimited private and public code repositories for hosting and sharing code.Documentation: GitHub provides a platform for creating and sharing documentation for projects.Integrations: GitHub integrates with various tools and services, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and project management tools.Security: GitHub provides security features such as access control, code signing, and security alerts to protect projects.Community: GitHub has a large developer community, making it easy to find answers, collaborate, and contribute to open-source projects.

Cons

Cost: For private repositories and advanced features, GitHub requires a paid subscription, which can be expensive for individual users and small teams.Limited Storage: GitHub has limited storage for larger files, and it can be difficult to manage large binary files or backups on the platform.User Interface: The GitHub user interface can be overwhelming and confusing for new users, and some advanced features can be difficult to use.Dependence on Internet: GitHub requires an internet connection to use, which can be a drawback for users with limited or unreliable internet access.Limited Customization: GitHub has limited customization options, and it can be difficult to integrate with other tools or modify the platform to meet specific needs.Performance: GitHub can become slow or unresponsive during periods of high usage, and some users may experience performance issues when working with large repositories or projects.Privacy Concerns: Although GitHub provides security features, some users may have concerns about privacy and the security of their data, especially when hosting sensitive information on the platform.

Pros

1.Robust task management: GitHub's task management system offers a comprehensive set of features that make organizing, tracking, and prioritizing tasks a breeze.2.Seamless multi-project management: GitHub excels in handling multiple projects simultaneously, allowing users to effortlessly navigate between projects and keep everything neatly organized.3.Powerful collaboration capabilities: GitHub fosters real-time communication and efficient collaboration among team members, with features like commenting, suggesting changes, and reviewing pull requests.4.Integration with popular tools: GitHub integrates smoothly with other widely used project management tools such as Jira and Trello, enhancing its versatility and compatibility.5.Version control excellence: GitHub's version control system ensures that everyone is working on the latest version of the project, minimizing errors and conflicts while maintaining a seamless workflow.6.Intuitive user interface: GitHub boasts a clean, well-organized interface that is easy to navigate, making it accessible for users of varying technical expertise.

Cons

GitHub's features and functionality work together harmoniously, ultimately boosting productivity and enabling employees to achieve their project goals efficiently.