Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:36 PM UTC

Thanks for considering GitLab. The different scrum boards for GitLab are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/applications/#scrum-boards For GitLab 8.11 (August 22) we're planning to ship a kanban board with GitLab itself, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17907

What we hear most frequently a reason for switching is the in the integrated CI, CD, and container registry. The GitHub importer will import your repo, issues, PRs, milestones, labels, and wikis http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/importing/import_projects...

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by choward » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

I'd just gitlab because it's open source. You could run your own gitlab servers if you wanted. You don't have to worry about vendor lock in unless you use the paid features.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

joeseeder wrote: post #9

I moved most of new private repos to gitlab.com from bitbucket. It's nice to experience interface parity between self hosted and public gitlab. And more and more of my clients move to self hosted gitlab as well.

Great to hear that. We take great pride in running an unmodified version of GitLab Enterprise Edition on GitLab.com Our settings are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/settings/

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by xemoka » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

I quite like GitLab, although I'm using it self hosted on premises for our team. Honestly, it's overkill and I wish Gogs had been more evolved when I initially picked up GitLab.

I have not really tried GitLab's hosted offering, I have a couple repos up there, but nothing extensive.

Have you considered a VPS with Gogs? It's super lightweight and easier than snot to setup.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by haukur » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

I prefer GitHub myself. I tried using GitLab for my private projects, but their service is usually very slow. Taking 15 seconds to load a page is just not acceptable, in my opinion (this is not an exaggeration - their average page load times seem to be at a minimum of 5 seconds). If you don't want to pay, though, it's one of the better options. Their integrated (also free) CI service is nice. However, the UI/UX is not very good. It can be difficult to navigate source code and between issues in their issues system.

$7 for a GitHub account with unlimited private projects is a pretty good deal, especially compared to their previous pricing tiers. I also think the experience of using one website for most open source projects as well as private projects is better.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by jswny » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

I still use GitHub but the best thing about GitLab for me was the integrated CI (which is amazing), and the fact that you can host GitLab on your own servers.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:41 PM UTC

dglass wrote: post #8

Gitlab's servers have been slow in my experience. Sometimes taking 10-15 seconds to push up a new commit. I got tired of waiting and moved everything back to bitbucket. Both gitlab and bitbuckets source code browsing is slow and a little clunky. GitHub's source code browsing is definitely the best.

You're right, we have to do better on performance.

We solved most of the time waiting when pushing a new commit, see the API timings slide on https://www.scribd.com/doc/316471059/GitLab-Infrastructure-2...

The web interface is still slower than we like. We've doubled the team of performance engineers and we're making progress, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59 and all issues labeled with performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&sor...

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by magic_beans » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:41 PM UTC

Why not Bitbucket, which is free and private?

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by alcoholiday » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:42 PM UTC

Switched to gitlab @ work from github (the enterprise edition) and it's been much nicer. Really appreciated the integrated CI/CD support, and we're just about to start using the built in container repo.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

jttam wrote: post #6

I am contemplating a move from Github to Gitlab right now. Feature-wise there seems to be enough parity with Github to make this sort of thing possible. Also, gitlab's CI system is attractive and being able to run our own runners in our own environment (we currently used an outsourced CI system.) We're also doing it because Github enterprise is too expensive, and we want to rely on less external dependencies in our e…

Glad to hear you're considering to move to GitLab. We think being able to have CI Runners on your own environment too is a great advantage, not only on Linux machines but any. For GitLab.com we're using autoscaling runners https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/29/gitlab-runner-1-1-releas... at Digital Ocean and we're running 2800 now, see http://i.imgur.com/8bP8QBh.png for a screenshot I just took that combines our Digital Ocean runners with people that bring their own.