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  5. Git vs fastlane

Git vs fastlane

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Overview

Git
Git
Stacks343.7K
Followers184.2K
Votes6.6K
GitHub Stars57.1K
Forks26.9K
fastlane
fastlane
Stacks716
Followers437
Votes74
GitHub Stars40.6K
Forks6.0K

fastlane vs Git: What are the differences?

What is fastlane? Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow. fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.

What is 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.

fastlane belongs to "Mobile Continuous Integration" category of the tech stack, while Git can be primarily classified under "Version Control System".

"Easy to use" is the top reason why over 17 developers like fastlane, while over 1441 developers mention "Distributed version control system" as the leading cause for choosing Git.

fastlane and Git are both open source tools. Git with 28.2K GitHub stars and 16.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than fastlane with 26K GitHub stars and 3.97K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Git has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3932 company stacks & 4778 developers stacks; compared to fastlane, which is listed in 93 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Git
Git
fastlane
fastlane

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.

fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.

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Connect all build tools together;Define multiple lanes for different needs;Jenkins Integration;Extend by adding your own build steps;Deploy from any computer;Release new app updates with the push of a button
Statistics
GitHub Stars
57.1K
GitHub Stars
40.6K
GitHub Forks
26.9K
GitHub Forks
6.0K
Stacks
343.7K
Stacks
716
Followers
184.2K
Followers
437
Votes
6.6K
Votes
74
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1429
    Distributed version control system
  • 1053
    Efficient branching and merging
  • 959
    Fast
  • 843
    Open source
  • 726
    Better than svn
Cons
  • 16
    Hard to learn
  • 11
    Inconsistent command line interface
  • 9
    Easy to lose uncommitted work
  • 8
    Worst documentation ever possibly made
  • 5
    Awful merge handling
Pros
  • 20
    Easy to use
  • 13
    Itunes connect deployment
  • 13
    Open Source
  • 11
    Incredible flexability
  • 9
    Third party integrations
Integrations
No integrations available
Testmunk
Testmunk
GitHub
GitHub
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
TestFlight
TestFlight
HockeyApp
HockeyApp
HipChat
HipChat
Crashlytics
Crashlytics
Travis CI
Travis CI
Jenkins
Jenkins
Slack
Slack

What are some alternatives to Git, fastlane?

Mercurial

Mercurial

Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.

Bitrise

Bitrise

It is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step.

SVN (Subversion)

SVN (Subversion)

Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.

Buddybuild

Buddybuild

Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform.

Greenhouse

Greenhouse

Greenhouse automatically builds your project for every commit you make and runs all your unit or UI tests on the emulator/simulator or on real hardware. Automatic build distribution is also supported so that your team and clients are always up to date with the latest state of your apps.

Codemagic

Codemagic

Codemagic is the developer's favourite CI/CD tool for mobile app projects. Build your Android, iOS, React Native, Ionic, Unity and Flutter projects on Codemagic.

Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM is a distributed version control designed for big projects. It excels on branching and merging, graphical user interfaces, and can also deal with large files and even file-locking (great for game devs). It includes "semantic" features like refactor detection to ease diffing complex refactors.

Pijul

Pijul

Pijul is a free and open source (AGPL 3) distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is to be based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn and use, and really distributed.

DVC

DVC

It is an open-source Version Control System for data science and machine learning projects. It is designed to handle large files, data sets, machine learning models, and metrics as well as code.

Magit

Magit

It is an interface to the version control system Git, implemented as an Emacs package. It aspires to be a complete Git porcelain. While we cannot (yet) claim that it wraps and improves upon each and every Git command, it is complete enough to allow even experienced Git users to perform almost all of their daily version control tasks directly from within Emacs. While many fine Git clients exist, only deserve to be called porcelains.

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