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

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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

xemoka wrote: post #14

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.

It looks pretty nice. In fact, it looks a lot like GitHub.

Funny tho that they host their own code on GitHub. Is that just because they don't want to pay for hosting? (That's sensible.)

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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

johnhaquiti wrote: post #7

I'm using Gitlab for CI at the moment, it makes things much easier. I miss some of the simplicity of GitHub however. If you are using CI I would recommend got lab.

How can we make GitLab simpler to make you more comfortable?

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by cp9 » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

github's where the people are. Everyone already has a github account. Either way git itself means there isn't too much vendor lock-in, just the ancillary parts of the project (issues, wiki, project site)

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by gcb0 » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:46 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.

github cheats for performance.

our github enterprise will not bother try show diffs on some pull requests if you changed more than a hundred lines or so. very worthless.

my workflow now is to always check the diffs locally because i don't trust theirs.

never used gitlab or bitbucket a lot so i don't know if this treachery is there too.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

aeorgnoieang wrote: post #21

xemoka wrote: post #14

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.

It looks pretty nice. In fact, it looks a lot like GitHub. Funny tho that they host their own code on GitHub. Is that just because they don't want to pay for hosting? (That's sensible.)

Edit: It seems this was about Gogs, not GitLab. Old comment: See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#canonical-source for the explanation: "The source of GitLab Community Edition is hosted on GitLab.com and there are mirrors to make contributing as easy as possible."

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by hosh » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

Github's UX is very polished. Having tried Bitbucket, it's not at parity when it comes to UX.

I have not tried Gitlab so I won't comment on that. I will say, however, Github has put a lot of work into the pull request interface and being able to examine code. This matters a lot more when you are working with a team (though it assumes you know how to take full advantage of it). I'd look at Gitlab through that lens, and if you are working solo, the cheaper solution is probably OK.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by felixangell1024 » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:49 PM UTC

I much prefer GitHub or even BitBucket over GitLab. GitLab was insanely slow. A lot of the features GitLab offers still didn't persuade us over something that was minimal, worked well, and was fast. I'm also not a fan of the UI/UX, it's kind of confusing what certain icons mean as opposed to a simple fixed with layout like GitHub.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by RomanPushkin » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:49 PM UTC

GitHub. It's like McDonalds, may be you don't like it, but you always know what to expect. Moreover, you'll find lots of tools that already integrated with GitHub (for example, https://waffle.io).

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by mattdennewitz » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:49 PM UTC

For me, Gitlab's slowness (both in pushing and in browsing) is offset by a great feature set and very solid pricing. The issue with speed has never stood in the way of productivity. I made the switch for personal projects because I didn't care for the extra private repos tax GH levied.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:50 PM UTC

haukur wrote: post #15

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 no…

Thanks for your comment. We know we have to do better on performance, see my earlier answer in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056276

How can we make issue navigation better? By the way, what do you think of the recent menu redesign? https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/06/navigation-redesign/