Git is a technology which evolved quickly from a version control system, developed by Linus Torvalds to satisfy the needs of linux kernel developers, to the de-facto standard for version control systems.

For a long time, we used SVN to manage our source codes in enterprise setups. And we did well with that. But as the ecosystem around Git grows, there is more and more demand to support also Git with CODESYS. It took us quite a big effort to support this in such a good way, as we do now.

In our implementation CODESYS becomes a native Git client, which communicates directly with local and remote repositories. And because also CODESYS Forge supports Git repositories, you can directly start to store your repositories there.

The only problem is, that Git is a distributed system. So it is not as easy, as with CODESYS SVN to provide a free version for use with CODESYS Forge. So currently there is no free version, to use with CODESYS Forge. But, you can use the Demo, which is available for free, to make your first steps with it.

Our Forge user @h-hermsen was so nice, to post his first impressions with CODESYS Git on CODESYS Forge, in this Blog Post

Thank you very much!

For the rest of you, I hope that you find the chance to try out CODESYS Git. And please let us know if you like it or not, or if you have problems with it. Just start a chat with us on CODESYS Talk.

Cheers,
Ingo