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Man, I totally would love it if my company would let us use github for our source control. Unfortunately, we are strictly not allowed to store anything outside of the company servers for security reasons and I'm reasonably sure the local github service cost would necessitate making a successful case that we should transition the entire company to it. Which involves not just proving that github is a better source control management suite, but that the git model is superior to the centrally managed, monolithic perforce model we use.


I started by converting a team to git.

Then, after they settled in and started to get it, I made repositories available from the outside (only ssh, still only selected people).

When more and more people learned that it _is_ possible to work in a train/plane/at a customer site and still use a decent toolset, they wanted in.

I hosted gitorious (with decent backups, a redmine next to it) on an old server.

In the end management gave in to peer pressure - and the price point was - erm - attractive. It's the official toolset now.




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