Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by ghettosoak » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

After much deliberation of pulling the trigger on the 7 $/mo private Github account, I'm leaning heavily towards Gitlab.

EDIT: I'm setting up a private repo for an upcoming project, and I'd like to run the issue tracking through some git service, potentially scaling to include a Kanban Board. Not sure if it's gonna be just me or other devs. This looks promising:

http://kanban.leanlabs.io/

I've set myself the challenge of being as financially prudent as humanly possible, especially with this project, as it is an extremely low budget.

If Gitlab can offer free private accounts, with a couple cool features thrown in on the side, why shouldn't I use it?

Which do you use? Why not the other?

PS – I'm not from Gitlab, I'm just some hacker trying to lock up his stack. :)

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by mtmail » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

Why do you lean heavily towards Gitlab? It's easier to make a recommendation if we know what your priorities are. Are you using it for you job? How many public repositories do you have, how many private?

Check out https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing as well.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by abfan1127 » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:29 PM UTC

I've been using Bitbucket for private repos. Its interface is not as intuitive as Github, but its good enough for me.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by MichaelBurge » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:30 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by willejs » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

trello (free) + github (3 free private repos or $9 per user per month for an org)

Gitlab works, and is decent, but only in certain circumstances.

Pay for SaaS products wherever you can and makes sense. Only build/host your own things that deliver you business value.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by jttam » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

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 environment.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by johnhaquiti » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by dglass » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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Post by joeseeder » Fri, Jul 08, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?

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

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.