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I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

by sytse 10y ago

LyndsySimon 10y ago
First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default. I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way.
- StavrosK 10y ago
  GitHub has that too, I noticed the other day. I still think Gitlab is much better, and use it by default for everything new, but fair's fair :P I love the integrated CI, though, and the use cases it enables. I love that I can just make a pipeline that lints, tests and compiles my code and then, if all of those pass, ends with deploying it to production. There are many more Gitlab features I like a lot, and the fact that they're all integrated is icing on the cake.
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    It took forever for GitHub to get protected branches. It was quite frustrating. Glad they finally have it though.
    - StavrosK 10y ago
      It took forever for GitHub to get anything, until Gitlab lit a fire under their ass. GitHub were perfectly content just resting on their laurels while every essential feature was handled by a different $15/mo third party service.
- sytse 10y ago
  Cool, thanks for that. As others noted GitHub recently also introduced protected branches. As for CI pipeline we got some great multiproject functionality coming in a few months https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25365543 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25...
moosingin3space 10y ago
The biggest thing I think would encourage more projects to move is improving discoverability. On Github, I can very easily search for new projects to contribute to, and their Explore page [1] is very nice. Gitlab's, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a way to browse by category like Github. For everything else, I like Gitlab a lot -- it seems to have the best integration of tools of any code host. [1]: https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore
- sudoscript 10y ago
  I completely agree. Actually, I think Github could do a better job with discovery too. The Explore page is a decent start, but why don't I get personalized recommendations for new projects?
  - moosingin3space 10y ago
    Yes, that would be nice -- look at the languages my code is written in or the categories my code is, it makes sense to suggest new projects based on that.
slackersc 10y ago
I recently setup a small personal project on Gitlab as well. I've been very impressed. I was able to setup a private repo, with a CI setup that builds my code and runs my tests every time i push a commit.. all on their servers. For free.

I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

by sytse 10y ago

I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default. I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way.

StavrosK 10y ago
GitHub has that too, I noticed the other day. I still think Gitlab is much better, and use it by default for everything new, but fair's fair :P I love the integrated CI, though, and the use cases it enables. I love that I can just make a pipeline that lints, tests and compiles my code and then, if all of those pass, ends with deploying it to production. There are many more Gitlab features I like a lot, and the fact that they're all integrated is icing on the cake.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  It took forever for GitHub to get protected branches. It was quite frustrating. Glad they finally have it though.
  - StavrosK 10y ago
    It took forever for GitHub to get anything, until Gitlab lit a fire under their ass. GitHub were perfectly content just resting on their laurels while every essential feature was handled by a different $15/mo third party service.
sytse 10y ago
Cool, thanks for that. As others noted GitHub recently also introduced protected branches. As for CI pipeline we got some great multiproject functionality coming in a few months https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25365543 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25...

moosingin3space 10y ago

The biggest thing I think would encourage more projects to move is improving discoverability. On Github, I can very easily search for new projects to contribute to, and their Explore page [1] is very nice. Gitlab's, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a way to browse by category like Github. For everything else, I like Gitlab a lot -- it seems to have the best integration of tools of any code host. [1]: https://github.com/explore https://github.com/explore

sudoscript 10y ago
I completely agree. Actually, I think Github could do a better job with discovery too. The Explore page is a decent start, but why don't I get personalized recommendations for new projects?
- moosingin3space 10y ago
  Yes, that would be nice -- look at the languages my code is written in or the categories my code is, it makes sense to suggest new projects based on that.

slackersc 10y ago

I recently setup a small personal project on Gitlab as well. I've been very impressed. I was able to setup a private repo, with a CI setup that builds my code and runs my tests every time i push a commit.. all on their servers. For free.