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At what point does it become a concern when you're just ripping off the UI of a competing product?
Isn't GitLab doing the same thing?
At what point does it become a concern when you're just ripping off the UI of a competing product?
Personally I feel for pieces of software like this it's fair to more or less clone the user interface. There's a lot of effort built up in understanding how to use this tool. Think of the complaints LibreOffice gets for not looking enough like Word, or GIMP for not looking enough like Photoshop.
Plus, Gitlab is already open source, so can you really call it "ripping off"? If you're referring moreso to Github, then I think Gitlab did it first and Gogs is following that trend. I'm sure both projects improve on UI where they feel best.
Overall, it's been more enjoyable than Gitlab. Things I don't like:
* No pull requests / issues
* No deploy keys
* It's a full on GitHub replacement in the sense that anybody can sign up to your Gogs instance and use it. Who's using it that way? Would be much better if it were built for one organization with a way to group repos into projects.
That in itself is pretty compelling, even if it's clearly not as mature as the competition yet.
What experiences do people have with http://phabricator.org/ ? It's not a GitHub clone but it does seem very complete, possibly replacing Jira and Stash if you're into the Atlassian ecosystem.
Unlike Stash, GitLab, GitHub, Gogs, or others of that nature - though - it expects you to setup your git repositories elsewhere (at least the last time I used it) instead of acting as a receiving host for them (at least the last time I used it - which was a year or two ago at this point).
We moved to Gogs. GitLab was too slow, and started giving us random 500 errors (fatal bug). Overall, it's been more enjoyable than Gitlab. Things I don't like: * No pull requests / issues * No deploy keys * It's a full on GitHub replacement in the sense that anybody can sign up to your Gogs instance and use it. Who's using it that way? Would be much better if it were built for one organization with a way to group rep…
We run Gitlab at work. It's a bit slower than Stash, but other than that I really love it. Lots of features, and they are easy to use. Upgrading to the newest version has always been simple. Only gotcha we have had is the timeout of the workers, which meant that some large repositories would be impossible to clone. After adjusting the timeout everything was fine. Although a bit more caching would be in order to speed…
"a bit slower"? My experience with Gitlab was terrible. It's unbearably slow especially when I try to create a relatively large pull request for review. The pull request comparison tool is not very smart either. Often times I have a big chunk of false change detection. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I just don't see any advantage of it over the like of Github and Bitbucket.
Github enterprise is super expensive.
And Stash (the self hosted equivalent of Bitbucket) is also fairly expensive once you go over 10 users.
I just downloaded this to try it out and it really is insanely easy to get going. Just unzip and `./gogs web`, done. It's also clear what settings and data are getting stored where, so moving / upgrading / removing looks easy. That in itself is pretty compelling, even if it's clearly not as mature as the competition yet.
We run Gitlab at work. It's a bit slower than Stash, but other than that I really love it. Lots of features, and they are easy to use. Upgrading to the newest version has always been simple. Only gotcha we have had is the timeout of the workers, which meant that some large repositories would be impossible to clone. After adjusting the timeout everything was fine. Although a bit more caching would be in order to speed…
"a bit slower"? My experience with Gitlab was terrible. It's unbearably slow especially when I try to create a relatively large pull request for review. The pull request comparison tool is not very smart either. Often times I have a big chunk of false change detection. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I just don't see any advantage of it over the like of Github and Bitbucket.
I've used it at a few places and had nothing but a good experience. Upgrades are easy and it's easy on boarding people who are used to Github.
I would recommend giving Gitlab another try...
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Isn't GitLab doing the same thing?
GitLab could definitely have been a bit more original with the name, but actually the UI is very different from GitHub. Which has its pros and cons, of course.