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I think if GitHub simply gave free private repos sooner, GitLab would’ve had a way harder time.
by klysm 5y ago
I think if GitHub simply gave free private repos sooner, GitLab would’ve had a way harder time.
- polote 5y agoGithub is initially B2B SMB and B2C and Gitlab is B2B Enterprise. 10% of Github employee are sales , 25% for Gitlab. I would say they are not even competitors
- jbergens 5y agoGitlab was earlier/better at letting companies install a version on-prem.
- mcronce 5y agoTheir CI story was also a lot better until Github added Actions
- bitexploder 5y agoWe have been happy customers for many years. It has been a breeze to manage and upgrades, backups, and DR have been very good for us. For an on prem software of this complexity it is quite a feat. It has also always been at a very reasonable and affordable price point for enterprise-y on prem software. As an infosec consultancy that used it for projects and code we always appreciated being able to manage the security of our installation.
- paxys 5y agoDisagree. Github's self-hosted product is trash compared to Gitlab. Plus they were very late to the game when it came to stuff like CI, package management, project tracking and a whole suite of enterprise features. Github had (and still has) a huge lead in public open-source development, but that's it.
- rhacker 5y agoWhile yes, my first usage of Gitlab was an on-prem install, things really took off with Gitlab.com in ways I don't think anyone expected with healthy competition from Bitbucket and Github. I do think it was the unlimited free private repos with unlimited contributors that really skyrocketed the success of the Gitlab.com path.
- sjtindell 5y agoAnecdotally I’ve felt like most of the features GitHub has released for some time now are a clone of something that hit Gitlab first.
- nurettin 5y agoI was able to get free unlimited private repos from github and bitbucket since 2011, but we still used the ancestor of gitlab as our local repo.