Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
Private Repos by default, not owned by Microsoft, alternative to the established player, built in CI features.
Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
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#12Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
The "Create merge request" (from issue) button.
It creates a new branch, with a smart name like 123-my-issue-title, and a new "pull request" for that issue and branch.
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#13I don't see how it's worth that much unless their plan is to strip all features from gitlab community or expect a Google acquisition.
I mean, with GitHub's price being 7.5 billion, it's not outrageous as one of their leading competitors. I also was feeling like a Google acquisition wasn't impossible, they did move their entire platform to Google Cloud recently. Microsoft and Google seem on pretty good terms lately, but right now, a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform. I could see a day where Google says t…
Why would they do that after shutting down Google Code?
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#14Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
We can self host it, it had (and still has) a great CI (before GitHub had it) and personally it had free private repos before GitHub had it.
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#15Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
It's easily self-hostable.
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#16I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?
Huge number of active users, premium (paid) features. I think it boils down to that.
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#17Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
I want to say it's the freedom to self-host, but really it's the CI.
Throwing a .gitlab-ci.yml file into my repo is by far the easiest way to get CI/CD incorporated into a product. The configuration of test runners (or lack thereof) is both a breeze and extremely powerful.
I'm not even talking about the auto-devops thing that I haven't tried; writing your own gitlab-ci file worked in frictionless ways that CircleCI, Travis, and (especially) Jenkins didn't.
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#18Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
I'm not currently using Gitlab anymore, but in the past, it was their CI that won me over. I was always felt left wanting more though because there wasn't a true sense of community/explore.
If there's one thing I value most about Github today it's the ability to easily discover new projects and human beings; and Github helps tremendously with that whereas Gitlab I feel like you end up fighting the system to discover new and interesting things and people.
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#19Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
My employer uses gitlab for most internal projects because of ITAR and other legal restrictions (aerospace). No external hosted services allowed, except obviously for released open source code.
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#20Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?
Basically, corporate people are allergic to paid managed services and are afraid of proprietary lock-ins (unless a VP heard it was what all the other VPs were doing). If the open source software has support contracts, and is cheaper, they leap on it. We're actually moving off GitLab onto Github, because it's just... better. Not only because managing it internally sucks, but also Github is just more polished. Still won't pay for GitHub Enterprise though, because we're cheap.