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Disadvantages of Using Git

Radu Coravu
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  • No built-in support for a ticketing system.
    Tip: This support is added on the side either by using a commercial ticketing system (such as JIRA) or by using Git-based servers (such as GitHub or GitLab), which have their own basic ways of adding and closing issues.
  • No built-in support for publishing.
    Tip: Publishing pipelines need to be built separately.
  • No way to lock resources when editing to avoid conflicts.
    Tip: However, there are ways to easily resolve most conflicts.
  • Mistakes can be made when using Git.
    Tip: Usually mistakes made that break the Git history or project structure can be reverted, or you can check out the entire project again.
  • Some training is required to use and understand the branching and history models in Git. Ideally, you should have a Git person who understands how to resolve conflicts, revert and cherry-pick commits, and in general, recover from any Git issues or at least who is willing to invest some time in understanding the Git model.
    Tip: Such training tutorials and courses are readily available.
  • Native Git is inefficient when asked to store large binary files (videos) or large numbers of binary files (images, PDFs) because every revision of every file is stored locally.
  • No granular support for user roles. Users usually either have full read-write access to a repository or read-only access.
    Tip: When using GitHub or GitLab, users with read-only access to a repository can still create pull requests with the changes they want to incorporate into the main repository.