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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Yes, of course it's safe to use git for financial software. Any "risk" involved is in how you manage your own code, and of course, the encryption between server and clients (but that has nothing to do with git).
Obviously you should not publish private key files in your public git repository; to protect yourself against that, use a strict .gitignore policy, and force code review prior to each push.
.gitignore is quite simple; read more about it here: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
Forcing a code review and sign-off is something you can set up git hooks to do; I'll be covering git hooks in a later article in this series, so check back!
Bravo! thanks for the referral. I wish I'd known about this prior to writing this series of articles. Maybe I'll be able to sneak in a mention in a later revision. Thanks for providing a hosting platform that is free and open source. I've signed up and look forward to trying it out.