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I can't seem to find what the difference is between Git and Nexus. Are the two comparable?
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Sonatype Nexus and Apache Maven are two pieces of software that often work together but they do very different parts of the job. Nexus provides a repository while Maven uses a repository to build software. Here's a quote from "What is Nexus?": Nexus manages software "artifacts" required for development.
what's the difference? Simply put, Git is a version control system that lets you manage and keep track of your source code history. GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage Git repositories. If you have open-source projects that use Git, then GitHub is designed to help you better manage them.
Nexus Repository OSS is an open source repository that supports many artifact formats, including Docker, Java™, and npm. With the Nexus tool integration, pipelines in your toolchain can publish and retrieve versioned apps and their dependencies by using central repositories that are accessible from other environments.
Artifactory has a slight lead in the number of supported repo types, but Nexus provides you with OSGi interfaces, enabling you to make custom repository types if needed.
There are both referential:
The referential database differs also:
The idea is that, for large deliveries that can be produced quite often, it is much easier to store them in Nexus ( you can clean them easily enough: cd + rm ), as opposed to version them ( which makes a DVCS repo like Git way too big way too fast to be cloned easily ).
So their goals are different, as I explain in:
You manage what you code in Git, and what you build in Nexus.
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