I don't think it's all that bad, especially not for a small shop. I mean, obvious caveats aside. Don't store sensitive stuff like passwords in git, don't store

I don't think it's all that bad, especially not for a small shop. I mean, obvious caveats aside. Don't store sensitive stuff like passwords in git, don't store big files. But it does provide a pretty simple clean deploy, with information about the state of your deployment. You can even include some of that audit support with some relatively simple, judicious scripts. Check out, echo something to a log file, commit it to a deployment branch and push it. I'm not sure I see how network shares or an http API offer better access controls over a git repo loaded over https for loading up code.