Topic Archive: Git

Selling Git on the Business End

Josh Symonds, Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 12:55 am

Today I gave a presentation on why Git makes sense for an agile consultancy like ours. It was more challenging than I initially imagined; there are many, many blog posts out there discussing why Git is technically superior to Subversion. But when I searched for posts discussing the business merits of Git I came up short. Git is faster, branches better, it has a local copy of the repository, it's small and cheap, but these are points that sell an engineer. What sells the administrators, the business analysts, the project managers?

I came up with a few cool scenarios to illustrate why we, as a business, should adopt Git -- essentially, why it makes not only my life easier, but why it will make the decision makers incredibly happy too. Then my colleague Jason Sendelbach and I gave a short talk on not only the why of the Git, but how we can start using it. Here I'll summarize our presentation. If you want to use Git in your company, but you have problems selling it to the administration, feel free to crib liberally. These points worked great for me.

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