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I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances wher

by Udo 11y ago

I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances where its CSRF protection feature misfires), but generally it's a very solid and performant git frontend. Although a plugin or widget system would be nice, it was also easy to extend the Gogs UI simply by editing its very straight-forward template files.

ddon 11y ago
Would be nice to have a list of features which Gogs offers and GitLab is missing! We are happy using GitLab...
- toolz 11y ago
  I would guess the only feature gogs has over gitlab is low resources and easy install, which for someone like me who does solo side-projects and likes to commit to my home server, is enough reason.
  - endymi0n 11y ago
    That's what has been the deciding part for us in the end. While Gogs is super lightweight, Gitlab is so feature rich, stable and user focused, that it's the only piece of Ruby that's running in our stack. We were right in the decision phase for a CI and had already set up a Jenkins machine when Gitlab integrated their CI which has been super simple, reliable and well integrated so far, no comparison to the monster that Jenkins is. Recent work on performance has been stellar, setup was quick, including backups, and upgrades have been super painless, they really got the important parts nailed down. Can totally recommend it, and it's really got the traction to both catch up with Github and also offer unique features. The pull/merge request workflow isn't as refined and better code review support would be high on my wishlist, but overall it has been a great choice so far with little regrets.
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thanks for your kind words! What do you think we can improve in the pull/merge request workflow and in code review support?
      - nicoster 11y ago
        make ?w=1 a default behavior haven't tried other alternatives but a happy gitlab user. you guys rock. the latest gitlab is much faster.
        sytse 11y ago
        Great suggestion, I created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14723 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14723 Glad to hear you're happy with GitLab.
mh-cx 11y ago
Same here. Gitlab is soooo extremely slow. Even on their own site many pages take several seconds to load. And no one really seems to care. Gogs is a great relief.
- sytse 11y ago
  GitLab.com is slow because of operational issues, like everything running from one NFS server. GitLab on your own server with enough memory should be fast. The slowness of GitLab.com is unacceptable to us, work to improve it is ongoing in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
  - mh-cx 11y ago
    Can't confirm that. I have to work with gitlab with different customers on several independent project teams. No installation feels fast. Memory is >2GB. Also have it here on a machine with 4GB. No page loads under 1 s. And the ajax requests seem to take even longer than a full page reload. Its a pitty you now load almost everything with Ajax and there's no option to turn that off. I often find myself to click a second time on a link because the browser spinner doesn't move and your progress bar is not really where my focus is. I had been using 5.1 for quite some time before. It wasn't really fast either, but things have gotten much worse with newer versions.
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thanks for your feedback. As we added more and more functionality to GitLab it probably has gotten slower. Since a few months we have 2 people working on improving performance fulltime. As you can see in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 our focus is GitLab.com performance but many of the changes should also improve the speed for on-premises installations. Changes include fewer calls to git, better caching of markdown rendering, etc. We already saw a lot of improvement in GitLab 8.5 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/ and we plan to continue making progress here.

by Udo 11y ago

ddon 11y ago

Would be nice to have a list of features which Gogs offers and GitLab is missing! We are happy using GitLab...

toolz 11y ago
I would guess the only feature gogs has over gitlab is low resources and easy install, which for someone like me who does solo side-projects and likes to commit to my home server, is enough reason.
- endymi0n 11y ago
  That's what has been the deciding part for us in the end. While Gogs is super lightweight, Gitlab is so feature rich, stable and user focused, that it's the only piece of Ruby that's running in our stack. We were right in the decision phase for a CI and had already set up a Jenkins machine when Gitlab integrated their CI which has been super simple, reliable and well integrated so far, no comparison to the monster that Jenkins is. Recent work on performance has been stellar, setup was quick, including backups, and upgrades have been super painless, they really got the important parts nailed down. Can totally recommend it, and it's really got the traction to both catch up with Github and also offer unique features. The pull/merge request workflow isn't as refined and better code review support would be high on my wishlist, but overall it has been a great choice so far with little regrets.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks for your kind words! What do you think we can improve in the pull/merge request workflow and in code review support?
    - nicoster 11y ago
      make ?w=1 a default behavior haven't tried other alternatives but a happy gitlab user. you guys rock. the latest gitlab is much faster.
      - sytse 11y ago
        Great suggestion, I created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14723 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14723 Glad to hear you're happy with GitLab.

mh-cx 11y ago

Same here. Gitlab is soooo extremely slow. Even on their own site many pages take several seconds to load. And no one really seems to care. Gogs is a great relief.

sytse 11y ago
GitLab.com is slow because of operational issues, like everything running from one NFS server. GitLab on your own server with enough memory should be fast. The slowness of GitLab.com is unacceptable to us, work to improve it is ongoing in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
- mh-cx 11y ago
  Can't confirm that. I have to work with gitlab with different customers on several independent project teams. No installation feels fast. Memory is >2GB. Also have it here on a machine with 4GB. No page loads under 1 s. And the ajax requests seem to take even longer than a full page reload. Its a pitty you now load almost everything with Ajax and there's no option to turn that off. I often find myself to click a second time on a link because the browser spinner doesn't move and your progress bar is not really where my focus is. I had been using 5.1 for quite some time before. It wasn't really fast either, but things have gotten much worse with newer versions.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks for your feedback. As we added more and more functionality to GitLab it probably has gotten slower. Since a few months we have 2 people working on improving performance fulltime. As you can see in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 our focus is GitLab.com performance but many of the changes should also improve the speed for on-premises installations. Changes include fewer calls to git, better caching of markdown rendering, etc. We already saw a lot of improvement in GitLab 8.5 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/22/gitlab-8-5-released/ and we plan to continue making progress here.