Developer tool provider AccuRev will release a package designed to help enterprises incorporate the increasingly popular Git open source version-control software into their development operations, the company announced Tuesday.
"We’re seeing tremendous excitement in our customer base over Git," said Cliff Utstein, AccuRev’s vice president of marketing. "That said, Git does have some challenges in the enterprise, around things like security, compliance and scalability."
AccuRev’s Kando package, due next month, will complement Git with additional enterprise-friendly capabilities, such as workflow, issue tracking and integration with Microsoft Active Directory and user authentication systems based on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
Kando will work in conjunction with AccuRev’s SCM (software configuration management) software, called AccuRev SCM.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds, along with a number of other developers, created Git in 2005, after becoming increasingly frustrated with other source control systems, such as BitKeeper, Subversion and CVS. Torvalds concentrated on making a highly efficient distributed system, one that can quickly merge new changes from many contributors into a large codebase.
Today, Git is one of the most widely used open source source-control systems, and manages the code for such large projects as Linux, Android, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Eclipse, Gnome and the Debian Linux distribution. Git is being increasingly used within larger organizations too, thanks to its low cost and popularity among developers, noted Gartner analyst David Norton. Larger organizations, however, face the challenge of working Git into larger management processes for software development, which is where a package such as AccuRev’s can help.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/git-gets-equipped-the-enterprise-185364
