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Codacy vs Git: What are the differences?
Codacy: Automated Code Review. Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt; Git: Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Codacy belongs to "Code Review" category of the tech stack, while Git can be primarily classified under "Version Control System".
"Automated code review" is the primary reason why developers consider Codacy over the competitors, whereas "Distributed version control system" was stated as the key factor in picking Git.
Git is an open source tool with 28.2K GitHub stars and 16.3K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Git's open source repository on GitHub.
Netflix, reddit, and Lyft are some of the popular companies that use Git, whereas Codacy is used by Codacy, InstaGIS, and DocEngage. Git has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3933 company stacks & 4780 developers stacks; compared to Codacy, which is listed in 44 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.
Pros of Codacy
- Automated code review45
- Easy setup35
- Free for open source29
- Customizable20
- Helps reduce technical debt18
- Better coding14
- Best scala support13
- Faster Employee Onboarding11
- Duplication detector10
- Great UI10
- PHP integration9
- Python inspection6
- Tools for JVM analysis5
- Many integrations5
- Github Integration4
- Must-have for Java3
- Easy Travis integration3
- Items can be ignored in the UI3
- Asdasdas3
- Gitlab2
- Asdas0
Pros of Git
- Distributed version control system1.4K
- Efficient branching and merging1.1K
- Fast959
- Open source843
- Better than svn726
- Great command-line application368
- Simple306
- Free291
- Easy to use232
- Does not require server221
- Distributed28
- Small & Fast23
- Feature based workflow18
- Staging Area15
- Most wide-spread VSC13
- Disposable Experimentation11
- Role-based codelines11
- Frictionless Context Switching7
- Data Assurance6
- Efficient5
- Just awesome4
- Github integration3
- Easy branching and merging3
- Light2
- Compatible2
- Possible to lose history and commits2
- Flexible2
- Rebase supported natively; reflog; access to plumbing1
- Easy1
- Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system1
- Team Integration1
- Flexible, easy, Safe, and fast1
- CLI is great, but the GUI tools are awesome1
- It's what you do1
- Phinx0
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Cons of Codacy
- No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git6
Cons of Git
- Hard to learn16
- Inconsistent command line interface11
- Easy to lose uncommitted work9
- Worst documentation ever possibly made8
- Awful merge handling5
- Unexistent preventive security flows3
- Rebase hell3
- Ironically even die-hard supporters screw up badly2
- When --force is disabled, cannot rebase2
- Doesn't scale for big data1
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