I have used git for the first time about a year ago. We’ve been talking about abandoning CVS for quite a while and Subversion seemed to be the best choice at the time. Yes we’ve looked at different version control systems, we tried sample migrations and still we couldn’t make a decision. And CVS… it was a constant battle, continuos corruptions, old hardware, hours long merges, but  it worked, so the general response was – why to change something that works.

We needed a strong kick in our butt and fortunately there was a man that was brave enough to kick until it hurt (thanks Rys!). With management convinced we only needed to plan the migration, schedule the training and just start using it.

That was about a year ago. Now, we use it on a daily basis, and I can’t imagine how we could live without it before. Yes, it’s not as mature as Subversion, Windows tool are poor and far from ideal, but it definitely speeded up our development process. I remember all this scepticism at the time and I only bring it up now because in the past few weeks I have actually seen more and more developers and projects switching to git. I was really glad to see PHPUnit and phpUnderControl moving over to github. It makes contribution to these projects so much easier.

I think git is the future of the open source software and it makes its development so much easier and faster. So if you haven’t used it yet or you’re just simply afraid of it, please put your fears aside and git up and going!