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Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by dreamsofdragons »

mattferderer wrote: post #10
MichaelBurge wrote: post #4

I use Bitbucket for private projects. It comes with a little issue tracker, although I just use a Google doc for task tracking.

Have you tried out Atlassian's JIRA software? It's free for up to 5 users I think.

Jira is great if you have the time to learn and customize it, but I wouldn't recommend it to a single guy with a single repo. You really need multiple roles with multiple workflows for it to be of value. It's overkill for a team of 5 or less.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by bbrunner »

I really enjoy GitLab. Very easy to setup and does what it promises. I will say that it's slower than I would expect but I haven't found that to be a deal breaker for me personally. Probably depends on your workflow and how much you do locally vs. in the UI.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by connorshea »

Disclosure: GitLab Frontend Engineering Intern

Some benefits for GitLab.com, in my opinion: GitLab.com has free public and private repos, only limit is the repo size (max 10GB, for comparison the Linux repo is ~1.5GB). Also includes completely free CI :) Plus everything is out in the open, and CE is entirely open source!

Regarding performance, we've gotten that feedback from a lot of users, and we're working very hard on improving it[1][2][3]. I've personally been working a lot on decreasing the page size, chopping off a ton of extra unnecessary assets to make things download and parse faster.

Would be happy to answer any other questions you have! Hopefully this doesn't sound like too much of a sales pitch ^_^

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19273#note_12...

[2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

[3]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse »

felixangell1024 wrote: post #27

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.

Edit: This response was meant for another comment.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse »

alcoholiday wrote: post #19

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.

Glad to hear that! We're very excited about our upcoming CI/CD features. We just released environments and next month we'll have deploys that require manual confirmation https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17010

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sashk »

Three years ago my answer would be GitHub. But since then I've been forced to use (and manage) Gitlab. Within that time, I fell in love with Gitlab and it simplifies many of our tasks. We are using self-hosted instance and worth every penny we spent on it's license. (Gitlab CE was enough, but we were looking for few features available in the EE).

So now my answer is self-hosted Gitlab.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by sytse »

cp9 wrote: post #23

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)

The network effect for user accounts matters most when you have an open source project with a large audience, for private projects it is less important I think.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by gtaylor »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #32

I know your looking at GitLab, but with a small team and small free accounts, I think you should probably look towards BitBucket instead. It has a lot easier pricing than GitHub.

Only thing to keep in mind with Bitbucket is that they seem to struggle to keep things running smoothly. Just spent a year working at a company who used Bitbucket full time. Their git servers were slow or down at least once a month, and we never knew if our webhooks would fire on time or at all.

I can't recommend them for anything serious.

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