Why Use Git With JDeveloper? by @chadothompson

If you’re a JDeveloper user and haven’t noticed yet – the JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 version has been update with support for the git source control repository. If you’re looking for great detail on how to use the repository integration itself, I’ll point you to the first of (hopefully a few) articles on using git with JDeveloper by Timo Hahn. Timo has done a great job of taking screenshots detailing the features of the JDeveloper integration – so I’ll happily point you Timo’s article for details.

(For a general overview and a general test drive of git, take a look at this tutorial from GitHub.)

What I would like to address is the reason to be either excited about this, or if you are new to source control systems in general, totally confused. Because JDeveloper (and nearly every IDE) has included support for cvs or subversion for a long time – why git?1

Read more at http://chadthompson.me/2012/12/12/why-use-git-with-jdeveloper/
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