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Xfce switches to GitLab

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Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by noahdesu »

tardyp wrote: post #21
mumblemumble wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to hear more about what you dislike about merge request reviews. At work we've been talking about migrating looking for alternatives to GitHub over dissatisfaction with its code review interface, and, of course, GitLab is on the list of ones to check out.

Ability to review diff between two versions of PR is a great missing feature in GitHub. When dealing with large changes, GitLab review flow is IMHO easier for reviewer. Gitlab store each push of a MR branch as different version (as hidden refs), which make the feature possible. In GH, you force push a branch, you loose the old code for good, so reviewer has to remember why he did that comment before to see if it is s…

This is such an important feature that has a direct impact on code quality and time savings that I'm not sure why it isn't a priority feature. As a reviewer, having to choose between "review everything again" or "trust the submitter didn't introduce extra changes in the revised pr" is such a terrible choice to have to make.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by _ix »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #9
pcx wrote: post #5

Great to see GitLab gain momentum in FOSS. It's a great fit for small teams too, it's easy to setup and keep updated. It's more important than ever to help GitLab gain adoption with GitHub making it free for private repos. I love GitHub as much as any developer, but I believe having a free, open alternative to it is important. I wish GitLab would improve their free-version of Merge Request reviews though, Github's is…

Does anyone else have things that make the switch from GitHub to GitLab a hard sell? I'm always curious why open source projects don't embrace an open platform, although I get that GitHub is fantastic in a lot of ways. I'm guilty of it myself, but I've reached the 50/50 GL/GH split as I try using GL more.

I like GitLab and GitHub quite a bit, but I lean toward GitLab for the simplicity of a unified tool chain.

However, I think GitLab can only really shine when you host it yourself. In 2020, on-premise/self-managed anything is kind of a hard sell, but the reliability and performance of gitlab.com leaves a lot to be desired. (So much so, I often think about trying to work for GitLab so I could help from a reliability perspective.) I stuck my neck out for GitLab in a previous organization and we ended up migrating from github.com to gitlab.com. This set me up for some embarrassment for every outage they experienced last year which felt surprisingly frequent. But if you have the resources, self-managed GitLab is great!

tl;dr: gitlab.your.org > github.com > gitlab.com

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by rgibert »

oweiler wrote: post #26
rhn_mk1 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm, this is the exact reason I made two copies of (shameless plug) the SpicaStack project earlier this month. GitHub's reach, network and stars help fellow devs and users discover our forks, while GitLab's exportability and amazing CI will let us actually work on it.

How do you keep the repos in sync?

You can setup git push to push to multiple repos.

git remote set-url --add origin ...

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by gargasm777 »

mumblemumble wrote: post #12
pcx wrote: post #5

Great to see GitLab gain momentum in FOSS. It's a great fit for small teams too, it's easy to setup and keep updated. It's more important than ever to help GitLab gain adoption with GitHub making it free for private repos. I love GitHub as much as any developer, but I believe having a free, open alternative to it is important. I wish GitLab would improve their free-version of Merge Request reviews though, Github's is…

I'd love to hear more about what you dislike about merge request reviews. At work we've been talking about migrating looking for alternatives to GitHub over dissatisfaction with its code review interface, and, of course, GitLab is on the list of ones to check out.

Code search, Gitlab doesn't have a code search feature. Paraphrasing The code search functionality can be achieved by adding Elasticsearch. We haven't added elasticsearch yet so cannot comment on the experience of using it.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by smitty1e »

scrollaway wrote: post #8

Great news :) We switched to Gitlab at Arch Linux recently as well: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ (well, we're still migrating projects and users, it's a long process)

Arch and Xfce are a peanut-butter-and-chocolate combination of rock solid performance, flexibility, and minimal fuss.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by fermienrico »

I find Gitlab UI quite a bit bloated and slow compared to Github. They have some amazing features but I can't get past how many (2-5 seconds) to load a page and sometimes upto 10 seconds (analytics). I hope that's being addressed in future. Usually, I spend at least 2 hours on Github in a given day - and probably access the website about 50 times a day or more. These UI issues add up tremendously.
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