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Why you don't use Gitlab ?

Ayrton on September 30, 2020

Hey Githubers! Today, I will try to convert you to use GitLab as main repo support for your projects. I discover Gitlab about 6 months, and the f...
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Jose Gabriel Companioni Benitez

Well, actually this is something I found interesting, I have been using Github since two years ago, but recently tried Gitlab and it looks interesting, but I think is much better to use Github for personal purposes

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Ayrton • Edited

Yes I always use Github for personal project and open source work. Gitlab is for me better for teams private project ! Thank you for your feedback 🙏

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Jose Gabriel Companioni Benitez

That's the point, could you tell me why do you think Gitlab is better for teams private projects?

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Ayrton

For me gitlab is better than github for team because the features of subproject has better , exemple

In github

  • project1-backend
  • project1-frontend
  • project2-backend
  • project2-frontend

In gitlab

  • Project1
    -- Backend
    -- Frontend

  • Project2
    -- Backend
    -- Frontend

For the both each project has a repo but gitlab. With subproject can be more organized .

And lots of tools for the team is interacted with cli or UI tools.

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Roger

year bro that true

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Renzo Diaz

I use gitlab for everything, although GitHub is popular than gitlab. Gitlab is a complete tool, you can manage your team, you can setup CI/CD, install in your own server etc. For me gitlab is better than GitHub In terms of devOps.

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Ayrton

Very helpful for devops ! 👍

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Juan F Gonzalez

I now have to use it for the client's project I recently joined. It's soooo different compared to GitHub that it will take me a while to get used to.

Fortunately, I do most of my stuff with the command line so won't need to learn much how their UI works.
Other than that, GitHub has pretty much everything I need and it keeps getting more and more awesome with every new release sooo

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perpetual . education • Edited

The biggest reason we're thinking about switching to gitlab (we have many repos in bitbucket, github, gitlab, you name it...) - is because github is owned by Microsoft - and they also own Atom, VScode, and now basically NPM... and - well, Microsoft sucks... and they make crappy stuff... so / yeah... things don't look good for that ecosystem. Open source is a lot less like "a free and open web" and a lot more like "free shit to help business men make stuff to make them money with no accountability" these days. Gitlab also has a ton of fancy options that GitHub doesn't have.

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Alireza Akrami

Oh, that seems a good feature that comes handy. I recently got two repos on GitHub for one of my personal projects. one for backend and one for frontend, and I had to reference each comment and issue between them.

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Neel

I started using git from 2018 and my first remote repo service was gitlab. The problem I noticed was that gitlab had a little too much when I started using it. I mean, I was a beginner to git and even development and I was spooked by concepts like the readily available CI/CD and all other sophisticated features it has. This made me move towards github for it's simplicity. Don't get me wrong, I still use both gitlab and github, but my repos have rooted hard with github and it is now hard to move away.

May be I will push my next project completely to gitlab to give it a try.

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Ayrton

Yes, gitlab is more complex than github at the first time, but when you use the CLI command tools it's very similar, but when you upgrade your skill, you will be happy to have started with gitlab.

Thank you for your feedback !

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David

Cool! Also, in my opinion, Gitlab looks newer (if you think about it).

Also, one thing I want to ask is I thought GitHub had their own package server for npm, nuget, mavern, rubygems, and docker? Or are they just public only?
(More info: Packages for orgs - github.com/orgs/{orgname}/packages, personal packages - github.com/{username}?tab=packages)

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Ayrton

Discuss with me, I'm not a crocodile 🐊

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Brendan O'Leary 👨🏻‍💻

GitLab team member here.

Great article!

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Ayrton

too many power here with you on this post :D Thank you for your visit/message

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Cod3slinger

GitLab's self-hosted CE package w/ a robust CI/CD toolset is everything!

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Ayrton

1000 % alright !

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stephen

I'm mostly familiar with Github so maybe that's the main reason why I don't use Gitlab but still a good tutorial.

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Jagadeesh Kotra

I host my blog and testing react app on gitlab pages. It's good but i like GH more.

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Ayrton

Oh Github Pages are very awesome too ! 100% alright !

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Gregor Gonzalez

I use Gitlab a while ago. But I wasn't aware about those options. I even don't know about ci/cd. I just use the basic stuff for personal projects

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Ayrton

Flexible, this is a keyword for gitlab. You can use it completely or juste one functionality, and when you improve your needed you can use lots of tools natively plugged on your existing project !

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Fernando B 🚀

I do Quality Control so our area of testing is a lab and we also happen to use git, therefore I use labgit, close isn't lol.

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Pierre

I've been on github for quite a long time, quite deceived when it was purchased by youknowwhoImtalkingabout, I'm thinking of migrating all my stuff to gitlab. Still hesitating a bit...

Also, do you think that it would it be easy to keep in sync a main repository hosted by gitlab with another one still left on github?
I'm thinking about this case for scenarios of contributing to a project hosted on github (there are still quite a number of very interesting projects hosted there...) while having a main account on gitlab.

 
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Irkan Hadi

Oh right, I misunderstood at first. You can also host on prem using github enterprise, not for free though

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Irkan Hadi

You can host static sites in github pages for free.

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Kieran Jennings

I love GitLab! We are starting to use it for everything in the company I work for. We have used it for CI/CD for a while. I still haven't found a better solution 😁