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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #169

Our local instance is only a version back but we find gitlab to be terrifically slow, and regularly have to kick the server as we find it stops tracking updates, then simply stops responding at all. Also, the diffing on merge requests is simply awful. It regularly shits itself on spacing changes and the like making most merge requests almost useless from a code review perspective. Searching just doesn't work. At all.…

Is your server on GitLab 8.3 or 7.x? If you're on 7.x please consider upgrading, it should make a world of difference. If the server stops responding please consider switching to the Omnibus packages if you have not done so already. For the code path issue please see the other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093988

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

icebraining wrote: post #186
dclowd9901 wrote: post #169

Our local instance is only a version back but we find gitlab to be terrifically slow, and regularly have to kick the server as we find it stops tracking updates, then simply stops responding at all. Also, the diffing on merge requests is simply awful. It regularly shits itself on spacing changes and the like making most merge requests almost useless from a code review perspective. Searching just doesn't work. At all.…

I have to agree regarding the slowness, and although we do have many repositories (~100) and the machine only has 2GiB of RAM, it does feel slow for a service that sits idle 90% of the time, and almost never gets concurrent user access. We're on 8.0.0, so maybe it has gotten better. That said, are you sure you don't have a very old version? There is a simple path for accessing code in a branch, you can just click the…

2GB of RAM for 100 repo's and a few users should be fine. But a lot of bugs and speed improvements were made since 8.0.0, please consider upgrading, it should be a smooth experience. Also, if you have not switched to the Omnibus packages already consider doing it now to reduce memory usage and improve speed.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #194
icebraining wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree regarding the slowness, and although we do have many repositories (~100) and the machine only has 2GiB of RAM, it does feel slow for a service that sits idle 90% of the time, and almost never gets concurrent user access. We're on 8.0.0, so maybe it has gotten better. That said, are you sure you don't have a very old version? There is a simple path for accessing code in a branch, you can just click the…

We have a lot of branches on our remote, so navigating that page is pretty much pointless. This may be more of an issue with our repo being dirty with undeleted branches, but where is a typeahead find feature on that branches page? It just seems dirt cheap to implement, yet it's nowhere to be found.

I don't think we have typeahead for branches, it would be awesome if someone can contribute it. BTW we greatly improved the speed of the branches page for GitLab 8.5 (out Feb 22) if you have many branches.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

pori wrote: post #197

I've used GitLab before and had a very good experience with it. Meant mostly for private repos, however. I tried pushing it onto the teams I have worked with in the past but they resisted because they were unfamiliar with it and didn't want to deal with server maintenance. The latter was understandable. Still, this really is a great solution for those who want an alternative to GitHub, especially a decentralized one.…

If people don't want to deal with server maintenance please consider GitLab.com (our SaaS) and GitHost.io (our single tenant offering where we do the upgrades and backups).

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by LinuxBender »

LinuxBender wrote: post #220

I tried to create an account on GitLab.com. It said I needed to fill in the Captcha. There was no Captcha. Tried on Safari. I will try again later on Firefox.

Worked on firefox after allowing gstatic. Email verification was rejected. My mail server didn't like your mail servers TLS settings. I will try again later.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

darklajid wrote: post #151

If only there were a way to get ~painless~ sync with repositories hosted elsewhere. I'm stuck with TFS here, which is a PITA and broken on so many levels, it's not even funny. Running a GitLab front would solve nearly all of my problems while still complying with the dreaded "everything in TFS" policy. :/

We don't have two-way sync but we do have mirroring of external repositories in GitLab EE and .com. Please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

lbo1 wrote: post #184
amelius wrote: post #180

I'm wondering if github and gitlab implemented their own version of git under the hood, or if they just use the vanilla git everyone else uses on their server.

AFAIK github implemented Libgit2 (or are at least a major contributor), which is an independent implementation. Am on mobile, so sorry for lack of sources.

With GitLab we sometimes shell out to git and we're using more and more Rugged https://github.com/libgit2/rugged, a ruby library that calls out to libgit2. For more information on our git calls see https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by geostyx »

m6w6 wrote: post #146
girvo wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really nice to see you plug Gogs like that :) I'm a massive fan of both! They fill different niches I think. You're always super helpful here on HN, too, and I just wanted to let you know that I (and I'm sure others here) appreciate it!

Huh? Looking at the GOGS documentation, it seems that only LDAP auth is upported?

You can also just setup accounts manually, w/o using external auth.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by pearjuice »

dominotw wrote: post #213
pearjuice wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Joke's on you, the sole reason Github "community" exists is to attract customers to their enterprise plans. That's where the money is earned.

yea, whats your point? you expect them to host the site out of goodness of their hearts? HN is ycombinator trojan horse for HN startups with full censorship of articles critical of their startups. Yet you are here aren't you?

The point is that you state "Gitlab seems a little too enterprisey for me" and then call out Github as the perfect example of how it's supposed to be done. Which is quite peculiar, given that if anything Github its motto is "how businesses build software" - it is an enterprise product they are building their business on. Hence I mockingly stated that the "joke's on you".
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