Re: Best practices for working with GIT

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe source control but there is a whole lot more to version control than just maintaining GIT branches. 

 
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

> On Sep 22, 2025, at 3:53 AM, Martijn van Breden <m.vanbreden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Jim
>
> Git seems to have become the de facto standard for version control, so I guess most problems will have been sorted out...?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martijn van Breden
>
> lead software architect
>
> My experience with git in a linux environment (java) was painful,  it was
> all open source tools other developers had bolted together, that at various
> versions had once worked together but then didn't... Spent a couple weeks
> of time recovering a large amount of code. I would stick with a proven and
> supported vendor tool. Even then, I would worry about supporting many years
> of development with ever evolving (or disappearing) tools. Thankfully that
> project ended for me.
>
> Jim Franz
>
>
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