We performed a comparison between GitHub and IBM Rational ClearCase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Version Control solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GitHub is the best tool for source repositories."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it can support you for most of the road map and it can automate some tasks which works really well with collaboration with the teams. They are really interested in how they organize the history of the code itself which is good."
"GitHub provides the SFH key to protect our passwords and connection."
"The most valuable features of GitHub are the ease of integration into Microsoft Azure DevOps. The process that you need to deploy into Microsoft Azure becomes fairly simple and the templates are already available, a lot of the engineers find it easier to use."
"During our use of GitHub, we have not encountered any problems and GitHub adds new features frequently."
"Any complex banking can be handled very easily in GitHub. It allows us to integrate with tools like Grid, where we can merge and resolve conflicts without any hassle."
"The initial setup was easy."
"GitHub's version control is valuable."
"The tool had features similar to Git for version control. It offered branching and merging capabilities, providing better control over code management. Integration was possible with other tools, including some change management tools. The overall process was normal."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"The project management sector really needs some improvement for GitHub. I don't know if GitHub made sense for me as a project manager."
"I would want to see some form of code security scanning implemented."
"The solution needs some more controls for deleting code."
"GitHub could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The development team pushes the code into a repository, and the CI/CD pipeline will perform the build. We need open-source libraries to perform the builds. It would be helpful to have the ability to link to open-source libraries like npm libraries. I don't know if GitHub Actions provides this. I would like to see that in GitHub Actions if they don't."
"There is room for improvement in terms of interface."
"This solution could be improved if migration was fully automated to make it easy, for example, to migrate repositories into GitHub."
"The security for this solution could be tightened up and improved."
"The protection needs to be improved."
"The solution's UI is slow compared to other tools. It is an old tool."
"I have found it very difficult to understand many functionalities in IBM Rational ClearCase. We have had many problems and it is not user-friendly."
GitHub is ranked 3rd in Version Control with 64 reviews while IBM Rational ClearCase is ranked 8th in Version Control with 6 reviews. GitHub is rated 8.6, while IBM Rational ClearCase is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of GitHub writes "Beneficial version control and continuous integration, but guides would be helpful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearCase writes "Useful for version control but UI is slow ". GitHub is most compared with Snyk, AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, Atlassian SourceTree and GitLab, whereas IBM Rational ClearCase is most compared with Git, Bitbucket, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Helix Core and Apache Subversion. See our GitHub vs. IBM Rational ClearCase report.
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