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GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by shandor »

DouweM wrote: post #61
shandor wrote: post #59

I'm glad there's starting to be a good amount of choice in this realm of tools! I've actually just lately been looking into a new all-in-one package like this for our company. Git hosting, code reviews, issue tracking, wiki, and nice project management features all in one place. My current systems-under-test are Phabricator and Jira. Anyone have an opinion on how GitLab compares to those two?

We compare GitLab with a bunch of other tools on our website: https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/ . We don't have a section on Phabricator yet, but if you end up trying both GitLab and Phrabicator, please consider writing down some of your observations! Like all of our website (and our product, as a matter of fact), we accept merge requests to improve that page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/mast…

Thanks for the reply!

I'll see if I have time to evaluate yet more tools very thoroughly , but if I look into GitLab I'll definitely hit you with something for that page :)

one thing that jumps at me from those comparisons is that mostly all of them are against other tools that are mainly for repository hosting. Is it intentional, and similarly the main idea of GitLab itself?

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by sytse »

sinatra wrote: post #45
sytse wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In GitLab you can use @ to mention people, # to mention issues, and ! to mention merge requests.

Great! Thank you for letting me know. Any chance of supporting something like that for the wiki pages too? So that we can refer to other pages or headers in those pages using @ or # mentions?

We have no plans but feel free to make a feature proposal.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by allan_s »

congrats for the new release, here my critic (don't take me wrong, I use and love gitlab for so long, and the other features of 8.11 are really awesome)

* merge conflict resolution: It definitely looks cool and make conflict resolution BY MERGING easier than any other way i know BUT most of the time I want my co-worker to resolve conflict BY REBASING (i.e as if they had branched just right now) , following the principle that you merge from specific to generic. So though I definitely agree most of people don't care, but for larger team/project where you often need to make archeology and dig inside the commit history , the "master merged into feature branch" makes the commits tree look weird

Outside of this, it's maybe only me, but most of the team I've worker with where using a scrum-like taskboard (like http://taiga.io ) instead of a kanban-like, is it planned to be added/provide the option or (which I perfectly understand) do you plan on focusing on kanban and letting third-party project for those who prefer scrum ?

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by nickysielicki »

knownothing wrote: post #67
nickysielicki wrote: post #56

With both GitHub and gitlab, I wish there was more work in making it easy to create pull requests without having to click around on a website. I'll often check out software, notice something small that I can easily fix, and spend 5 minutes fixing and testing it. But then I have to spend another 5 minutes going on GitHub, forking the repository to my profile, going back into my shell, changing the URL for origin, push…

You can use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.

Right. But what I'm saying is that you have to use GitHub's web UI to do all of that.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by sytse »

YorickPeterse wrote: post #51
jkot wrote: post #49

GitLab looks very tempting, congrats to their team. Question: I would like to migrate from Github to Gitlab, but can not really move. Is there some bridge, which would mirror Github repos (with Issue tracker and pull requests) on Gitlab?

While you _can_ import data such as issues we do not have any automatic mirroring system for this in place. We do however have repository mirroring, but this _only_ mirrors the repository data.

We're discussing a full sync in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/904

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by K0nserv »

allan_s wrote: post #73

congrats for the new release, here my critic (don't take me wrong, I use and love gitlab for so long, and the other features of 8.11 are really awesome) * merge conflict resolution: It definitely looks cool and make conflict resolution BY MERGING easier than any other way i know BUT most of the time I want my co-worker to resolve conflict BY REBASING (i.e as if they had branched just right now) , following the princi…

GitLab EE has an option to require MRs to be fully rebased before allowing merges.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by sytse »

shandor wrote: post #71
DouweM wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We compare GitLab with a bunch of other tools on our website: https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/ . We don't have a section on Phabricator yet, but if you end up trying both GitLab and Phrabicator, please consider writing down some of your observations! Like all of our website (and our product, as a matter of fact), we accept merge requests to improve that page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/mast…

Thanks for the reply! I'll see if I have time to evaluate yet more tools very thoroughly , but if I look into GitLab I'll definitely hit you with something for that page :) one thing that jumps at me from those comparisons is that mostly all of them are against other tools that are mainly for repository hosting. Is it intentional, and similarly the main idea of GitLab itself?

We are mostly compared to those tools, that is why we added those sections. I think it might get unwieldy if we added non repository hosting tools too.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by sytse »

ythl wrote: post #34
sytse wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Isn't that global search possible with Elastic Search http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/elasticsearch.html (EE only)?

Oh, possibly. I don't actually use EE, but I just assumed it was still unimplemented because the issue is still open: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/556 Edit: looks like they updated this issue since I last checked and the feature is scheduled for `8.12`

You're right that we're still working on global search. Thanks for the correction and the link to the issue.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Post by luibelgo »

foepys wrote: post #63
kolanos wrote: post #48

Congrats on the release. Haven't tested this version, but have tried recent versions and if there's one thing that I think GitHub still runs circles around GitLab it's accessibility. If you don't believe me, try firing up a screen reader and see which you find easier to navigate with your eyes closed. In some cases you'll run smack into a brick wall with GitLab. So if there's one area where massive improvement is nee…

This is one of the few points I have to criticize as well. GitLab's design is a bit too chaotic for me. It's missing visual dividers in a lot of places, especially in the issue tracker. Also GitHub feels better on horizontally smaller screens.

Also having that big header plus tabs just grabs most of the vertical space in the screen, very bad decision now that most of the screens have way more horizontal space.
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