Git is increasingly a part of the enterprise because developers love its speed and flexibility. Yet Git also poses a variety of challenges for non-developers: security, scalability, visibility, and more. See live demonstrations of how GitSwarm, the complete Git management solution, addresses and serves the needs of every stakeholder through the power of Helix.

1. Making Git Work for the
Enterprise Through the
Power of Perforce Helix
John Williston, Ph.D. Product Marketing Manager
Geoff Nichol, Principal Architect

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Git is a Very Popular 10-Year-Old
— 2015 Stack Overflow
Developer Survey
69.3%
of developers use Git
2005 2015

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But It Poses Challenges to the Enterprise
 Maximum practical repository size
 Leading to Git sprawl (lots of repos)
 Too complex for some contributors
 Raises security concerns
 Weak visibility across the entire pipeline
 DevOps challenges for continuous delivery
 Destructible history can be a problem

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Inefficient Product Delivery
 Poor visibility between
teams introduce friction
and design errors
 Poor component reuse
results in higher
production cost
 More delays, less efficient
product delivery
 Less secure
 Increased risk of
quality issues
DevOps

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Recent Gartner market guide
“
“
Enterprise-grade management of Git
that offers important aspects of a DVCS —
good merging, the ability to work offline
and good collaboration — along with the
security and central repository of a CVCS,
will resolve most remaining concerns
about the use of the DVCS model.
— Gartner, Inc. Market Guide for Software
Change and Configuration Management

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 Hybrid Workflows
• Distributed & Centralized Version control,
code reviews, simple file sharing
• Happy developers & contributors
 Every File
• Efficiently handles large, often binary, data
 DevOps Stay Happy & Productive
• A mainline source for all builds even with
distributed development
 All IP Safe & Secure
• Granular permissions, theft risk monitoring
Perforce Helix
CONTRIBUTORS
CONSUMERS

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More performance
More uptime
More control
Better coordination
Binaries
Large files
Protect IP
Regulations/audit
More code
More frequently
More freedom
More flexibility
All text
Small files
Code anywhere
Local repos
Perforce Helix
Serves developers Serves operations
Coordinate Development & Operations at Scale

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GitSwarm: Integrated Git Management
Based on GitLab CE
 Self-service repos
 Merge requests
 Permissions
 Issue tracking, etc.

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Mirrored to the Helix Versioning Engine
 Automatic bidirectional mirroring with Helix servers
 Helix enforces security, down to the file level if needed
 Immutable content for audit trails, regulated industries, etc.
 Support for Git LFS that works for DevOps

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Work Locally, Scale Globally
 Distributed environment
for developers
 Git experience and workflow
equivalent to well known tools
 Single source of truth
 Perforce reliability and stability
protecting your assets
HelixGitSwarm

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Distributed Team Support
 Each developer team
working within its own
GitSwarm ecosystem
 Each team has controlled
access to IP managed
within Helix core
 Team can access only what
they need to do their job

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Narrow Cloning
 Narrow cloning with Git
 Git-sized slices of a huge Helix
monorepo
 Remap content as needed
 Optional shallow-cloning
 Mirror content from local Git
repo to the master monorepo
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Helix Code
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Jill’s
Git repo
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John’s
Git repo

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GitSwarm Enterprise Edition
 Extends LDAP support
 Share projects between groups
 Git hooks
 Two factor authentication (LDAP)
 Jira integration
 Import from GitHub Enterprise
 Available as an add-on option

14. Thank you!
jwilliston@perforce.com, @p4jbw
gnichol@perforce.com