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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by markwillis82 »

We are in the middle of migrating from Bitbucket to our self hosted CE version and apart from a few permissions issues on SSH keys we have had no issues with the whole process and updating our deployment system was just a case of changing git urls.

Well done Gitlab :)

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by jsingleton »

I've moved from BitBucket to GitLab and on the whole it works well. I still use GitHub for open source projects though.

One problem is that a lot of things automatically work with BitBucket and GitHub but GitLab need manual setup. For example, TeamCity has out-of-the-box support for both BitBucket and GitHub but you have to set up GitLab as a raw git repository (and create a user for it etc.).

edit: I should add that I've also used GitHub professionally with private repositories. However, I quite like having separate credentials for open source vs. more sensitive work.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by jobvandervoort »

jsingleton wrote: post #3

I've moved from BitBucket to GitLab and on the whole it works well. I still use GitHub for open source projects though. One problem is that a lot of things automatically work with BitBucket and GitHub but GitLab need manual setup. For example, TeamCity has out-of-the-box support for both BitBucket and GitHub but you have to set up GitLab as a raw git repository (and create a user for it etc.). edit: I should add that…

Is there anything we can do from our side? We're very interested in making it easier to integrate with GitLab, but also happy to invest some time into making existing integrations easier to set up.

Our hope is that with time, it'll become obvious that when developing an application, you integrate with GitLab as well as with BB and GH.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by insanebits »

I'm recently setup Gitlab for my personal projects, import from bitbucket was a breeze.

I've used omnibus installer and it was almost painless, only a couple of issues because of LXC limits.

My only concern is resource usage, it does take at least 2Gb memory, are there any options to tweak it?

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by sdesol »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #5
jsingleton wrote: post #3

I've moved from BitBucket to GitLab and on the whole it works well. I still use GitHub for open source projects though. One problem is that a lot of things automatically work with BitBucket and GitHub but GitLab need manual setup. For example, TeamCity has out-of-the-box support for both BitBucket and GitHub but you have to set up GitLab as a raw git repository (and create a user for it etc.). edit: I should add that…

Is there anything we can do from our side? We're very interested in making it easier to integrate with GitLab, but also happy to invest some time into making existing integrations easier to set up. Our hope is that with time, it'll become obvious that when developing an application, you integrate with GitLab as well as with BB and GH.

> Is there anything we can do from our side

Addressing this issue will go a long way, in making it easier for others to create solutions that can easily integrate with GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20567

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by pyther24 »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #4

As always, we're happy to answer any questions about GitLab.

Why doesn't LFS support SSH authentication? It has been requested numerous times and has missed numerous milestones. I'm still not convinced it will hit 8.11. We desperately need LFS support, but we use one time tokens, so LFS Authentication over HTTPS just won't work for us. We are an EE customer and this future is way more useful than a UI redesign! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3589

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by OliverJones »

Working for a 15-year old small software company, I converted a whole bunch of ancient CVS stuff (yeah, yeah, don't laugh unless you also have 15 years of profitability) to GitLab CE. After a couple of false starts it went flawlessly and now works flawlessly.

(I used the tigris.org migration tools).

The GitLab team is doing a great job. Thanks you guys.

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