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GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by taspeotis »

kparaju wrote: post #9
pgambling wrote: post #5

I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview )

I've had to compare the two. At the current state, Stash is better than GitLab in almost all ways. Better UI, more features and other small things that make a big difference (e.g. repo sync). GitLab, on the other hand, has two advantages over Stash. Firstly it's open source (+free). Secondly and most importantly, GitLab is under active development and there is a new release with reasonable amount of content every mon…

    At the current state, Stash is better than GitLab
Yes.

    GitLab, on the other hand, has two advantages over Stash ... GitLab is under active development and there is a new release with reasonable amount of content every month.
No.

Stash 2.9 was just released [1] about seven weeks after Stash 2.8 [2] about seven weeks after Stash 2.7 [3].

[1] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.9+rel...

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.8+rel...

[3] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.7+rel...

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by gourneau »

ridruejo wrote: post #3

If you want to give it a try in your computer or in the cloud you can use one of the images from bitnami. We already have updated them to gitlab 6.3 http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

One other thing from the GitLab GitHub repo (https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/README.md#i...)

"Digital Ocean 1-Click Application Install Have a new server up in 55 seconds. Digital Ocean uses SSD disks which is great for an IO intensive app as GitLab. Look for GitLab under 'Select Image' => 'Applications' when creating a droplet."

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by philip1209 »

ridruejo wrote: post #3

If you want to give it a try in your computer or in the cloud you can use one of the images from bitnami. We already have updated them to gitlab 6.3 http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

Digital Ocean also added one-click spin-ups of a gitlab VM recently.

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by agilord »

pgambling wrote: post #5

I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview )

Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago): - Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use). - GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again).

Stash seem to have a larger team behind it, with more features, documentation and snappier responses, but GitLab is promising too. I hope they all can be profitable and keep up the speed of improvements in all of the products.

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by Touche »

2 biggest downsides to GitLab:

1) It's a resource hog. Big time.

2) It's incredibly hard to set up. The installation instructions and the development instructions are essentially the same. Key point, an end user should never have to `bundle install`, ever.

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by GhotiFish »

Touche wrote: post #15

2 biggest downsides to GitLab: 1) It's a resource hog. Big time. 2) It's incredibly hard to set up. The installation instructions and the development instructions are essentially the same. Key point, an end user should never have to `bundle install`, ever .

it is?

Oh... it's made in ruby.

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/tree/master/app/control...

self comment: this post isn't gonna end well :P

Re: GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code

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Post by neumann »

Touche wrote: post #15

2 biggest downsides to GitLab: 1) It's a resource hog. Big time. 2) It's incredibly hard to set up. The installation instructions and the development instructions are essentially the same. Key point, an end user should never have to `bundle install`, ever .

Agreed on both counts - I blame Ruby.

We enjoy using it, but to new users I would recommend looking into gitbucket

https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket

written in scala and no install necessary!

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