We performed a comparison between GitHub and IBM Rational ClearCase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian, GitHub, Git and others in Version Control."This solution is just easy to use."
"The solution has been stable for us."
"It has a lot of features from the code development perspective. You get a lot of features such as repo, commit, merge, and branch. You can play around and do things on the fly. It is easy and simple to deploy. It is also easier to use when working from home."
"GitHub is the best tool for source repositories."
"We use GitHub as a repository."
"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."
"It is really simple to set up."
"GitHub provides good time reduction and this is what I value the most."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"GitHub could have better integration or capability with other solutions."
"Our firewall was blocking cloning and downloading with SSH."
"I would want to see some form of code security scanning implemented."
"GitHub storage is one of the main requirements and it could improve."
"We would like this solution to have a more user-friendly interface."
"The product must document the CI/CD process more."
"They're improving the work items to track the progress of the team, but in my experience, Azure DevOps is better in this functionality. GitHub needs to improve the form to track the progress of the work done by a team."
"It is difficult to merge a code or restore it to an older version."
"The protection needs to be improved."
"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 2nd in Version Control with 64 reviews while IBM Rational ClearCase is ranked 8th in Version Control with 5 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 "Difficult to use, not efficient, but stable". 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.
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